Jim WrinkleFeb 23
mhoye

Once again, age verification is actually identity verification and the the end goal is "papers, please" for the internet.

"Age verification" will do nothing to protect children, but will definitely facilitate mechanized attacks on virtually every facet of life involving identity and security.

This breach includes "...national IDs, full dates of birth, and contact data, which are prime ingredients for identity theft, SIM-swapping, and social-engineering attacks".

https://cybernews.com/security/global-data-leak-exposes-billion-records/

Feb 23 at 2:31pmWeb
Show threadJack Coates πŸ€Feb 23
@mhoye β€œall data approaches deleted or public over time.” as @quinn says
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@mhoye @mlevison Age verification is rarely about age. It’s about binding activity to identity at scale. Once the rails exist, they won’t be limited to minors. The real shift is infrastructural: persistent credentialing layered into everyday transactions. That creates new attack surfaces and new leverage points. The debate isn’t safety. It’s whether we’re normalizing identity as a prerequisite for participation.