Ela
"Age verification" laws are "we want to have all adults and their complete online profile in a database" laws, and that Persona, the company behind LinkedIn, Roblox, Discord ID and age verification is owned by Peter Thiel should be all you need to know.
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Show threadSkyrMar 7
@ela "behind" meaning "are using", not "being owned by", if my Google-Fu is correct.
And being the company "leaking to the US government" https://cybernews.com/privacy/persona-leak-exposes-global-surveillance-capabilities/
Show threadEmmelineMar 7
@ela Don’t forget Mississippi banning any social media that is against the gop because they made up porn laws.
Show threadGordon J HoltslanderMar 7

@ela Appears to be a well developed “ Verifiable Credentials Data Model” that could be extended to meet demands of identity while maintaining privacy. Will this just be ignored?

https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/

Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0

A verifiable credential is a specific way to express a set of claims made by an issuer, such as a driver's license or an education certificate. This specification describes the extensible data model for verifiable credentials, how they can be secured from tampering, and a three-party ecosystem for the exchange of these credentials that is composed of issuers, holders, and verifiers. This document also covers a variety of security, privacy, internationalization, and accessibility considerations for ecosystems that use the technologies described in this specification.

Show threadMorgan ⚧️Mar 9
@pinhman @ela yes it will, because if the internet and apps have taught us anything it's that corporations cannot be trusted with privacy or security, will skimp on development/security costs, and will sell our data to anyone who wants to buy it
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦Mar 8
@ela more like privacy interference !
Show threadKierkethumbs up convincinglyMar 9
@ela conveniently tied in to palantir’s gestapo database for insufficiently pro-american rejects
Show threadStrypey4d ago

@ela
> Persona, the company behind LinkedIn, Roblox, Discord ID and age verification is owned by Peter Thiel

Willingness to deal with that proudly technofascist sociopath at all;

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/summer-reads/article/2025/07/22/peter-thiel-the-libertarian-billionaire-waging-war-on-government_6743617_183.html

... let alone on anything to do with identification of people using a platform, ought to be sufficient reason to tombstone accounts on all 3 of those. Leaving only breadcrumbs pointing to the ethical services they've been replaced with.

Time to head for the #FyreExyt folks ...

Peter Thiel, the libertarian billionaire waging war on government

'Tech Oligarchs' (3/6). With his aversion to progressives and his skepticism toward democracy, Peter Thiel was one of the first Silicon Valley giants to support Donald Trump.

Le Monde