First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.

They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then what? Rinse and escalate.

You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.

We don't have to wait that it escalates.

We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.

#Privacy #Biometrics #DataMinimization #AgeVerification

Remember Friends:

Age-verification does not protect
the children online. It just endangers everyone’s data, including the children’s.

Write to your local representatives to
speak out against online age-verification.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #KOSA

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK – No Way I Trust any Social Network with my ID

I don’t live in the UK, but my point just is that I would never upload my government ID to any social network. I don’t even like having to upload it to government sites, as they have a tendency to get hacked.

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See https://gadgeteer.co.za/bluesky-is-rolling-out-age-verification-in-the-uk-no-way-i-trust-any-social-network-with-my-id/

#ageverification #socialnetworks #technology

We're seeing a lot of initiatives across Europe and the EU to replace Microsoft services with #Linux and #OpenSource solutions.

This could be massive for Linux and the entire community, so I'm sharing my thoughts on why this is happening, why it's great, but also why it could still very much die down very quickly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGt2pZg7dJY

Robots won't be taking peoples' jobs. Corporate owners will be taking peoples' jobs and giving them to robots.

Can we get the wording right on this?

Boosting is really important on the Fediverse because it makes whatever you boost federate to the entire servers of all your followers. A boosted public post appears on your followers' timelines, but also becomes searchable to everyone on the servers of your followers.

Instead of an algorithm, the Fediverse relies on human beings sharing stuff they find interesting. This process creates a wonderful chain of discovery.

To boost something here, click the 🔁 or 🚀 button below the post.

#FediTips

Does Sega do what Nintendont?

#Videogames #RetroGaming #90s

SIM swap attacks allow hackers to steal someone's phone number and break into any online account connected to that number, usually by tricking a carrier's customer support.

The good news is it's easy to lock down your phone number and takes just a minute or two.

By me, at TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/how-to-protect-your-cell-phone-number-from-sim-swap-attacks/

Ubisoft wants you to physically destroy the games you buy from them lol #GetBent

#Ubisoft #Gaming #VideoGames