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   Paco Hope (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jan-2026 16:21:43 JST Paco Hope

   Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.

   Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.

   https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

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     Tim G (tg_esq@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 01:57:32 JST Tim G

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     @paco
     Bluesky asked me to give my ID information and documents to a third party provider when Australia introduced its under-16 ban a month or two ago.

     I deleted Bluesky.