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   Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD (joebeone@techpolicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 03:06:54 JST Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

   The UK government is out campaigning for its mandatory online age verification with the slogan, "Verifying your age keeps a kid safe." https://bsky.app/profile/jsrailton.bsky.social/post/3lww6k7ymo22q This is quite daft and dangerous... Let's complete that thought:

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     Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD (joebeone@techpolicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 03:07:20 JST Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

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     Verifying your age creates wonderful, poorly protected, centralized databases of your government ID and sensitive browsing history, just waiting for the next massive data breach. ...

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     Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD (joebeone@techpolicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 03:07:32 JST Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

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     Verifying your age conveniently links your real name and financial data to your most private online activities, creating a lucrative new product for data brokers to sell. ...

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     Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD (joebeone@techpolicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 03:07:33 JST Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

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     Verifying your age shows tech-savvy kids how to use a VPN to bypass the system completely, while creating a honeypot of personal data from the adults who actually follow the rules. ...

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     Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD (joebeone@techpolicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 03:31:25 JST Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

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     Verifying your age tells a 25-year-old that they can't access legal content because a notoriously biased facial recognition algorithm believes they look too young. ...

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     2xfo (rndanger@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 02:03:52 JST 2xfo

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     @joebeone
     I just like to insert this point where i can because i never see it said and it seems so basic:

     Biometrics are perfect usernames because they are publicly available and mostly don't change

     Biometrics are terrible passwords because they are publicly available and mostly don't change

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     Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD (joebeone@techpolicy.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 02:03:53 JST Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

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     Verifying your age means that when your face scan is inevitably stolen, you can't just reset it like a password. You end up with a new, permanently compromised biometric identity! No thanks, UK.

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