Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/38950187

Blåhaj Lemmy - Choose Your Interface

Why can’t people just go down to their local shop, show their ID like when you buy alcohol, and buy some kind of age verification token/code which can be used with online services?
my id has an nfc chip built in, I can scan it with my phone to confirm my identity. if only online services could implement an identity check that way.

if only online services could implement an identity check that way.

Outside of banking and taxes, I can’t think of a single online service that I want verifying my identity. Ostensibly, these services just want to verify if you’re of legal age. The small, binary question of “Are you over 18?” should require much less private data than would be needed to verify my identity.