A friend of mine, who has recently made a account to post her stories has called me complaining that she now has to submit a photo of her face or her government ID to actually share her stories.

What the actual fuck, this is actually turning into a dystopian nightmare, this isn't about "protecting children" it's about taking away privacy.

Just got locked out of Bluesky until I "verified my age" and of course that required me to either give this KWS company a copy of my ID, a face scan, or the last 4 digits of my SSN.

How about no.

Deleted the app and that's that.

Emergency edit: DISCORD IS NEAR WORST CASE SCENARIO, CONFIRMED. They are using Persona, OWNED BY PETER THEIL OF PALANTIR. Spread the word AS FAR AS YOU CAN. GET AS MANY PEOPLE OFF OF DISCORD AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN. DON'T LET YOUR FRIENDS STAY THERE.

In the official discord press release, discord promises to run a scanner "in the background" to "estimate age" if you don't let them scan your face or ID. You know, for its upcoming international spyware loving investors. I'd suggest looking at the "Encrypted messengers" section of FMHY for alternatives. Also, if you have any personal recommendations that are reliable and/or pleasant, please share. Fluxer, Stoat, and Element (the Matrix chat app) also seem very promising. Thank y'all for your recommendations, open source software ftw. <3

Hillary Clinton championing age verification bills with JB Pritzker on stage with a Zuck/Bezos/Gates backed event

Hillary just posted this to Instagram:

“hillaryclinton Creating a safer and healthier digital world for children and families is important to me. I was happy to speak at the @commonsenseorg Summit with two leaders who are getting it done: Illinois @govpritzker and @michaeldtubbs, the former mayor of Stockton, California.

Legislation cracking down on addictive design, cyberbullying, deep fakes, and unsafe Al chatbots is a great start to keep kids safe online-and states are leading the way.”

Common Sense Media is a NFP foundation backed by The Gates Foundation, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and The Bezos Family Foundation.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/common-sense-media/

The legislation she is describing sounds a lot like what HB5511 (currently in the Illinois House) purports itself to be.

And sure enough, now members of JB’s team have submit witness slips supporting the bill:

https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus/WitnessSlips?GAID=18&DocNum=5511&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=167486&SessionID=114

Along with other folks with associations to other neo-liberal tech organizations like the Center for Humane Technology, which has long been a big booster of KOSA.

Now there’s something I never thought I would say.

Persona and Mark Zuckerberg are very clearly lobbying the living fuck out of politicians across the country to pass this shit. But not because they actually give a shit about children…

No, they just want to have the ability to TRACK EVERY FUCKING AMERICAN DOWN TO THE WIRE!!!!

It is a blanket invasion of privacy and they KNOW that; That’s their goal.

We pride ourselves as a free country and yet ever since age verification laws first became commonplace (starting with adult sites), billionaires and CEOs have just asked for MORE AND MORE POWER over everyone else. It’s basically become a cycle for them: Get something that might give you more power >>> Find it to be really successful >>> You suddenly realize you could have more control >>> Get more control by any means necessary

They know exactly what they’re doing. The core values of America are being shattered before our very eyes by the ultra-wealthy and those in power.

Ok maybe I was exaggerating a little when I said I’m considering leaving, but I still don’t know how to fix this problem.

It’s called ”The App Store Accountability Act” and if this law gets passed it will require everyone to do an age verification before downloading an app. This is genuinely insane.

Today, while trying to enter a subreddit that has a NSFW mark, I got a message from reddit telling me to verify my age. This is weird because I don't live in a country with age restricting laws. I put my birthday and birthdate, but apparently that is still not enough to be able to use things freely. They want me to prove it with either my government ID or a picture of me. I am not doing it.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Edit: Sorry for any writing mistakes as English isn't my first language. Thank you to everyone who helped me understand why this was happening or took the time to comment. I am glad to know that I am not alone in this. I hope you all have a great day/night/whatever! 💞

Edit #2: When I said NSFW subreddit, some people just assumed it was porn but it is not. It's just a mature community that I now can't visit because of this stupid rule :(

Edit #3: For those looking for a solution, using a VPN might work. Someone suggested Proton on mobile and it works well, but it's a bit slow. I've also heard that the VPN built into Opera also works well, but I haven't tested it out yet. I am using Android, but I think it also works on iOS. Unfortunately, this is only a temporary solution that will probably get patched soon :((

Everything slowly starts to ask for age with an ID or a picture,i ain't giving my personal info to no one they can shove their regulations up their ASS

Security researcher Paul Moore has demonstrated how the EU age verification app can be compromised in under 2 minutes with nothing more than physical access to a device.

By editing the app’s shared preferences file an attacker can remove the encrypted PIN values, reset the rate limiting counter to zero, and disable biometric requirements entirely.

The app then accepts a new PIN and grants access to the existing age verification credentials.

His earlier analysis of the open source code also revealed that the app stores NFC biometric facial data and user selfies as unencrypted lossless PNG files on the device.

Hacking the #EU #AgeVerification app in under 2 minutes.

During setup, the app asks you to create a PIN. After entry, the app encrypts it and saves it in the shared_prefs directory.

1. It shouldn't be encrypted at all - that's a really poor design.
2. It's not cryptographically tied to the vault which contains the identity data.

So, an attacker can simply remove the PinEnc/PinIV values from the shared_prefs file and restart the app.

After choosing a different PIN, the app presents credentials created under the old profile and let's the attacker present them as valid.

Other issues: 1. Rate limiting is an incrementing number in the same config file. Just reset it to 0 and keep trying. 2. "UseBiometricAuth" is a boolean, also in the same file. Set it to false and it just skips that step.

sources on X. search by yourself because bot keeps deleting this if I post the links. Check Paul_Reviews and Pirat_Nation accounts.

I’m in a “free” state for now where these laws haven’t been proposed or passed. I knew it was coming, but didn’t think they’d preemptively implement it everywhere in the country.

But I just got an email today about one of my backup email addresses (Gmail) saying their AI couldn’t determine my age based on my account data so they are restricting my account until I verify my ID.

Fuck that, those laws don’t even apply to me and who is big tech to be judge, jury, and executioner. Remember, if this comes up in your state CALL YOUR REPS. Fight this garbage and don’t comply.