"Won't somebody think of the kids?!" while they admit to using the data to squeeze more money from ads (translated making your experience better). They don't deserve the communities they have anymore.

Soon any company you interact with will have enough information to ruin your life because there's always a way for some employee to get the data even of you really do what you promise and don't save anything.

As GLaDOS said - it's been fun, don't come back.

Don't worry, your data will remain private. We'll have it, and we'll sell it, of course, but that's our right. Also, we might be hacked when some bad guy guesses our Pa$$worD, or we make an oopsie and leave the entire server open and unencrypted. But, other than that, your driver's license is safe with us.

I wonder if there would be a market for life-like heads on… like… a ventriloquist dummy type of thing…. And I very much mean for security bypassing get your filthy mind out of there.

I've seen some of the tools in the UK are fooled by AI generated pictures. Kind of funny to see if they end up in a database and shit starts getting regurgitated like the human centipede.

This site might help

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Many of these services won't accept a static image, which is all that site provides.

Persona and other third‑party age verification providers have been cited in broader debates about the privacy and security implications of online age checks. News coverage of Reddit’s UK rollout focused on short photo retention windows and the separation of user account data from verification data, while also highlighting civil liberties concerns about expanding age restrictions online. Founders Fund's investment in Persona has been scrutinized in broader discussions of government surveillance and identity verification technologies due to its ties to Peter Thiel, the founder of data-analytics company Palantir. Song has denied operational relationships between Persona and Palantir or U.S. government agencies.

In February 2026, a security researcher discovered publicly-exposed code on an instance of Persona's verification system used by the U.S. government's Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), which revealed information about the company's verification pipeline. The discovery led to further evaluations of Persona's operations; the messaging service Discord stated that it would end its trial use of Persona for age verification in certain territories, and evaluate alternative providers and methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_Identities

Yep, persona verification asks you to move your head up/down/left/right on a live selfie feed.

Ugh, fuck that

What about wearing life like masks? You can be tom cruise.

I was just thinking that, since it's easy to generate a video long enough to satisfy their requirements. That's probably what I'd do if any of my services required this (but they don't, yet).

Yeah my state just started this now. What the fuck. I dont remember seeing a vote on this shit.

They forgot option 3: uninstall the app

Besides the recommendation to drop sites that demand privacy-breaching validations, seeking the legal venues is important too, else people will just lose ground as they try to avoid the issue.

They're counting on the vast majority of their user base being driven by FOMO.

I fear that those of us who are willing to cut ties and go elsewhere are a very small minority.

“Let’s not”

You forgot "It'll be private because we'll 'anonymize' it before we sell it"

I've been thinking a printable Dr. Breen mask might work. It just needs to be something good to fool the algorithm when you tape it too your face.

Fuck FOMO. I'm LOMO. The Love Of Missing Out.

Surely some mathematician knows some magic cryptography to do age checks with zero trust and no data shared?

BTW, OP, unlike reddit, on lemmy you can edit your post titles :P

Same

Yah... My old (abandoned) reddit account is quite old, if you cant prove im not a child by the account being two decades old, thats a you problem. Find me in 2029 and we can talk, but until then, were going no contact.

[Updates DNS and router block list]

Username checks out.

I love "all photos are encrypted so your information remains private". Encrypted to whom? Private from whom? I don't want you to have it! I'm more worried about you then the guy at the coffee shop. He can already see my face!

You're going to have a hard time judging my age by a photo you can't decrypt, so don't pull that shit with me.

I read somewhere that some kids used an AI generated image to fool the age verification. It sounded like they just printed it out and took a selfie.

Is reddit dead yet?

You can use face posers in videogames.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/brits-can-get-around-discords-age-verification-thanks-to-death-strandings-photo-mode-bypassing-the-measure-introduced-with-the-uks-online-safety-act-we-tried-it-and-it-works-thanks-kojima/

"Patiently waiting"

Does anyone still male fake ids? Asking for a friend.

Wondering if there's a AI tool that can make real looking images of various ids?

Wonder if there's a free site that can generate IDs using AI?

I was like "which shitass site is that supposed to be" and started reading below Reddit and started laughing, i'm already gone ha ha bye Felicia!

At what point do we normalize a civic duty to avoid parasitic data miners

Not yet, but I'm wondering if we'll have a new influx of users over this.

When they functionally banned pornography in the UK, someone made use-their-id.com which generates driving licences (for satirical entertainment purposes) of the politicians who supported mass Identity Verification.

I hear that it is apparently accepted as a driving licence on some pornography sites.

When one of those sites gets their ID-storing database hacked, I'm sure we'll find what we knew all along: Keir Starmer is a wanker.

I can just connect to old.reddit.com without issues. You might try that. If you can't, may be due to laws in the area associated with your geolocated IP address.

EDIT: I can also just connect to the new UI too, so it's probably your IP address.

Oh I’m sure. The problem would be the physical security features of the card.

So fucking glad they perma banned me. I don’t even want to accidentally support this bullshit by having an account. Some gifts seem to wrap themselves.

Of course we'll also have to comply when the government wants lists of people with attitudes of anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity.

"All photos are encrypted.."

Why the Hell do you need to fucking store them? If I rejuvenate to a 12 year old?!

TR;WL

Too Reddit; Went to Lemmy

They remain encrypted, but also stolen, decrypted and sold. It's like schrodinger's cat, but there's no one to observe the state.

Just recently I had to travel to Germany by train on short notice. The German online ticket portal also wanted my ID and selfie when paying because it was an iNtErNaTiOnAl journey.
I just booked it through my local country's international ticketing portal and they didn't even mention it.

I refuse to give this information outside of serious financial or governmental proceedings, where you might expect that you will have to deposit a proof of identity.

I'll rather drop every single platform requiring this then to engage with this circus. "What about the kids" my ass.

I tricked the aliexpress age verification with an image from google. I wonder if this will work here too.

An overwhelming amount of Reddit is now just bots, insane out of control mods, and morons. Using AI to immediately ban if you try and post certain words is bullshit.

Reddit can eat shit, it’s Orange Turd loving CEO can fuck right off.

Identity theft 'bouta pop off crazy style in the future.

Quit reddit, you, filthy animal!

There's not nearly enough sports discussion here for that. None of you Linux nerds talk about football/baseball/hockey. (Or Magic, for that matter.)

Then start talking about it, that sounds interesting, and I would genuinly love to hear about those topics, you, filthy animal.