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 sensitiv…
  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 months ago

    “Child safety” has simply become the marketing department for a rent-seeking surveillance industry.

    Damn ain’t that the truth.

  • Zephorah@discuss.online
    15·
    3 months ago

    Loyal Moses has been on about this. Apparently the bills require third party cloud storage of the information in addition to an online requirement (for logging in???), and continuous telemetry to in use apps on the desktop environment.

  • fubarx@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 months ago

    Was looking at a used car online. Found a site that had option to ‘reserve’ the car until paperwork was done. Started innocuously with email and phone info, to text updates. Fine. Then it asked to verify info, with scans of driver’s license.

    Persona.

    Noped right out.

    • ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml
      9·
      3 months ago

      Sounds like a scam. My friend recently looked for cars online, saw one he thought was good. Had a weird description “only 70,000km on the odometre but air conditioning is broken” like how? Then my friend paid $300 for a “viewing” of the car and the scammer made off with the money. Needless to say my friend isn’t very smart and never was! Imagine paying just to see something. This is sadly what mental illness does to a person. Not the first time my friend was scammed either.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    The Epstein class wants to reliably know who is (and therefore isn’t) an adult on the internet.

  • imacatnotaman@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 months ago

    I didn’t have internet until the 90s when I started college anyways. It’s gone way downhill with the barrier to entry being so slow. I’m fine going back to gopher, maybe some telnet BBSes, start getting more people to acquire LoRa mesh devices lol. I’ll even go back to sending everyone paper checks instead of doing online bill payments.