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Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

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    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…
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    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      1 hour

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

      • racoon@lemmy.ml
        2 hours

        You now need to show ID to watch videos on vimeo.com. You send your ID to a corporation called persona

          • Devolution@lemmy.world
            2 hours

            Looks like I won’t be using Vimeo anymore.

            • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
              2 hours

              What country are you in? I literally just did this (US) in my browser and watched (started) 3 different videos with no account or age checks.

                • skyline2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  2 hours

                  https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/38597306882193-About-age-verification-for-the-UK-and-the-EU

                  Looks like that’s because its not rolled out here… YET

              • thenextguy@lemmy.world
                2 hours

                Thing that was predicted to happen mysteriously happens.

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