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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 00:23:08 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

Hacks and data breaches of sensitive age verification information are not a hypothetical concern; it is simply a matter of when the data will be exposed, as this breach shows.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/hack-age-verification-company-shows-privacy-danger-social-media-laws
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1. Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws
  
  from Jason Kelley
  
  We’ve said it before: online age verification is incompatible with privacy. Companies responsible for storing or processing sensitive documents like drivers’ licenses are likely to encounter data breaches, potentially exposing not only personal data like users’ government-issued ID, but also...

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