nixCraft 🐧17h ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/116305873092655616

if people stopped giving all these corporations their age or id/kyc info and just canceled their subscriptions or accounts for 4 months we'd see how fast they stop asking once those next quarter results show up.

governments would wake up pretty fast with less VAT, GST, and Tax revenue, too. you give them an inch and they will take a mile. cut that inch and cut their source of revenue, and they will all fall in line.

that is the only solution to all these stupid laws.

Show threadnixCraft 🐧17h ago

the only time you should hand over your ID like a passport or stuff like that is when you absolutely need to. for example like crossing international borders, opening or operating a bank account or applying for a driver's license. those are all valid cases and highly regulated.

but this for profit corporation will just use your data to target you for profit. they even sold mobile phone numbers used for 2FA to advertisers. can you really trust them now with this nonsense?

Show threadkit
@nixCraft I resent having to provide ID for a bank account. I didn't need to when I was 12, why should I need to now (Some 40 odd years later)
Mar 28 at 1:27pmWeb
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCD15h ago
@hypostase @nixCraft But, you could be a terrorist. Anybody could be a terrorist. Heck, I am probably a terrorist, judging by my posting history 🍉
Show threadDarwin Woodka15h ago

@martinvermeer @hypostase @nixCraft

According to Trump we're all terrorists anyway, so what's the point?

Show threadkit15h ago
@darwinwoodka o In this household we prefer the term ”freedom fighter”
Show threadDarwin Woodka15h ago

@hypostase

Cool. I'm more of a freedom nonfighter. I don't fight them, I just wait for them to fail miserably so everyone hates them forever.

I already spent all my energy warning everyone what these fuckers were gonna do, nobody believed us so now everyone is finding out.

And I'll expend more energy helping the people who fix things on the way back up.

But I'm too tired to argue with clowns any more.