<![CDATA[We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in:]]>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.

Every single time.

And every single time it happens,
the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that built them act shocked—shocked!

—that collecting enormous databases of government IDs, facial scans, and biometric data from millions of people turns out to be a security nightmare

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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. Every single time. And every single time it happens, the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that…

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It doesn’t matter where the hard/PII data is saved. The ID’s and documents can be safe, sure. The meta data, the IP, the OS, the date, the time, the patterns of use, instances logged in and when, and any other data shared, will end up in oligarchs or government hands to profile the people further than we already are. Maybe just for behavioral manipulative advertising, maybe for identification in political round ups.
With the current fascist regime going after people wearing black to protests and garnering convictions of domestic terrorism as antifa as a result, I don’t I want any of my data, meta or not, being gathered due to the high potential for abuse of a repressive regime. I don’t want to end up in jail as a terrorist because I log into a liberal Discord frequently and use Signal.
Argue about data safety all you want, but it misses the actual problem completely.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jeffcodes/statuses/116233151076478730https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jeffcodes/statuses/116233151076478730Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:18:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: on Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:04:29 GMT]]>@jeffcodes @cdarwin the NZ Covid tracer has the data on the phone, and asked to share it every time.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/mu/statuses/116231206952675771https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/mu/statuses/116231206952675771Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:04:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: on Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:51:42 GMT]]>@mu @cdarwin
Even if the data is safeguarded, the larger purpose is achieved, mass surveillance. The data integrity is secondary to adding a whole new trove of PII that can, and will, be easily used for surveillance.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jeffcodes/statuses/116230920792677721https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jeffcodes/statuses/116230920792677721Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:51:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: on Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:24:41 GMT]]>@cdarwin I feel it is possible to do these things well, the NZ Covid tracer app was pretty good on privacy, even if it's not a proof of age thing.

When designed to collect minimal information, and allow control over that information to sit with the person whose information it is, there are some amazing things possible

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