Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

"We've been saying this for years now, and we're going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached.

Link: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

#linkdump #blogpost #surveillance

If every country starts requiring that people provide official ID in order to "verify their age" to use social media, there will be no way to use any social media without associating the account with a legal identity.

This is horrible for democracy,
and should terrify everyone.

It doesn't matter if platforms use third-parties or not. It doesn't matter if they use some special encrypted code, the result is the same. This gatekeeps open discussions and government criticisms free from reprisals.

This is bad.
This is China "free-speech" bad.

#Democracy #AgeVerification #Privacy

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so now there’s a proposed federal U.S. bill that mandates EVERY OS to verify your age on setup, regardless if you’re an adult or not or if you even want this feature…
and they call it the Parents Decide Act.

excellent  

https://itsfoss.com/news/os-level-age-verification-across-us/

#ageverification #bigtech #Linux

The little devil on my shoulder wants me to tell you about https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/copilot-flex-routing

Apparently #Microsoft is not able to get enough compute within EU datacenters to handle #Copilot requests.

Instead, it will do "Flex-Routing", which processes some requests in non-EU datacenters. This is Opt-Out. The only notification was an e-mail to Admins. If they missed that, companies might be leaking PII outside of the EU from tomorrow on.

Get your GDPR Nightmare letters ready!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116408009568440679

would like to have a wee little word with all the people who said everyone was overreacting to the california OS age signal legislation

Palestine Action defendants are blocked from explaining their motives or mentioning Israel, genocide, or the target of their actions

The British state is destroying its own courts to protect Israel's apartheid system

We are reporting this because British media can not