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Posted by speckx 13 hours ago

I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services(neilzone.co.uk)
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teamonkey 5 hours ago|
I was annoyed the other day when Reddit asked for age verification (via a Palantir-run service, no less) for my 18-year-old Reddit account. Obviously no way I’m doing that.

In any case I doubt there’s a proof of age stronger than looking at the subreddits I subscribe to. A broad selection of middle-age hobbies and tedious interests. Without me proving my age they could probably place it to within a few weeks.

etothet 12 hours ago||
I encountered my first run-in with an age verification prompt when I went to authenticate into the Claude iOS app. It asked me to use me iOS/iCloud account to confirm myage. It was quick and seamless enough, but even though I'm aware of this trend, it struck me as a bit jarring.
kevincloudsec 10 hours ago||
the verification service is the honeypot by design. it has to store what it collected to prove it did the check. the incentive to retain is built into the business model, and the breach is just a matter of time.
mixmastamyk 8 hours ago||
In our corner, school I.T. is provided free by the biggest advertising company on the planet. Has been for a while. What could go wrong?
cdrnsf 9 hours ago||
It is not the job of the government to parent in place of people who are not up to the task. There should be reasonable guardrails, but these laws are Orwellian.
autoexec 10 hours ago||
I won't do it for any of them. I've got an endless selection of things competing for my time and attention and I'll be happy to find another one where needed.
alpenglow9 9 hours ago||
Would you be willing to verify your age/identity if you had a cryptographic guarantee that the information exchange would be zero-knowledge?
adzm 12 hours ago||
I use multiple "real" identities so I don't have my real name associated with certain open source projects that involve sensitive things like cryptography etc. This is a huge concern of mine.
xerox13ster 11 hours ago|
I have multiple “real identities”, diagnosed due to trauma. We each want to have our own spaces of interest and experience online.

As a matter of mental health, we really cannot have these overlapping for many reasons, prime among them is that if one part of me becomes aware of another while they’re doing their thing, a mental “table join” can happen and disturbing memories can be shared which is incredibly destabilizing to the system.

As a wireframe example my programming alter cannot be exposed to the alter who browses cptsd forums or they remember things that cause them to dip from the headspace and we lose their knowledge.

We can’t try to pretend we don’t exist and pretend to be one person either, we did that for years and we ended up having a breakdown and went into a fugue state and moved across country leaving everything behind.

This law would destroy our productivity and contribution to economy or whatever corporacrats care about.

jagermo 11 hours ago|
I will never tell my real age if possible. I especially love free forms for entry, because then I can be born in the 1800s. Surprisingly few services have an issue with that.
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