Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
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    5 hours ago

    We should pretty much assume that all age verification efforts either currently are feeding into surveillance efforts, or will be bought out by surveillance companies.

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      3 hours ago

      Exactly. Even if a smaller company is running ID verification now there’s a very good chance they’ll be bought up by a monster later and take all that data with them.