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@bakura23.bsky.social · 4w ago

@paulbernal.bsky.social in other news did you see this, it's frustrating thar this isn't a bigger more controversial story www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/h...

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

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@bakura23.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@paulbernal.bsky.social typical, PH (who is complying with state AV) show state gov proof the state AV laws doing more harm and gov response is to threaten complying site (use VPN to access, blocked because of GDPR) bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Louisiana's Gov says she will retaliate against Pornhub after the site showed the state's famous AV law isn't working. Pornhub has been complying with Louisiana's age-verification law since 2023. But 8 in 10 sites on Google are not. These people can not accept this is the wrong solution.

@bakura23.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@paulbernal.bsky.social well this went under the radar, the lords are having an inquiry as to (among other things) whether AV is a data risk or not. www.techtimes.com/articles/321...

Lords Open Online Safety Act Inquiry as Breach-Prone Age Checks Strip Adult Privacy

Online Safety Act review: the Lords inquiry launched July 27 demands answers on why the law allowed age-verification vendors to suffer breaches exposing government IDs, failed to block a pro-suicide f...

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@bakura23.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@paulbernal.bsky.social so this is interesting, apparently people are even reluctant to AV themselves even just to watch R-rated films, so AV really isn't that popular in practice for anything bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Carnegie Mellon ran a study on consumer willingness to age-verify, requesting IDs to watch R-rated movies. Only 28% of users were willing to verify. THAT'S LESS THAN A THIRD. Imagine what it's like when it's something more controversial, like porn or LGBTQ content. www.cs.cmu.edu/~sscheffl/do...

From the CMU study: Our team at Carnegie Mellon University ran a study to find the answers to these questions. Our study recruited 1,635 participants to watch romantic movie clips and take a short research survey to be entered into a raffle. Participants were randomly assigned to age verify using one of seven approaches (five age assurance methods, one of which had three variants). Completion results varied significantly by age assurance method. We highlight some of the most important results in the bullets below. See Section 1 for our study methods and Section 2 for more results.? • When prompted to age verify with a government-issued ID, only 22-28% of users completed the process. Adding a liveness check (requiring users to blink, move their head, or smile to verify that the uploaded ID corresponds to the person completing verification) reduced completion to 17%. AI-based facial analysis had a 52% completion rate, and an email-based approach in which we stated we would look up financial documents based on email had an 86% completion rate. In comparison, a self-attestation "checkbox" approach had a 99% completion rate. More details in Section 2.1. • The majority of participants were at least somewhat uncomfortable with all non-checkbox forms of age assurance, even among those who completed age assurance in our experiment. Among age assurance completers, 53-80% of users were at least somewhat uncomfortable with the approach; among age assurance non-completers, this rose to 83-93%. More details in Section 2.2.
@bakura23.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@paulbernal.bsky.social so, AV for porn didn't stop kids and people actually going through with AVing themselves is lower than 2%. What an expensive waist of time (and i suspect duckduckgo is going to be more popular) bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A year after the Online Safety Act, British regulator Ofcom confirms its age-verification regulations haven't stopped kids from accessing porn — despite widespread industry compliance. "Our research shows that almost half of the pornography services visited by children have no age checks in place"

@bakura23.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@paulbernal.bsky.social I'd say I'm speechless put this is a woman who believed when someone at google told here algorithms where the result of someone turning dials to show more liberal or more conservative content bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One of the conservative architects of the UK's Online Safety Act is suddenly shocked — shocked! — to find that it applies to anti-immigrant content she likes. Censorship is a hungry, hungry, profoundly stupid beast.

@bakura23.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@paulbernal.bsky.social it's frightening that someone understands the Internet so little that they think this is a good idea bsky.app/profile/owen...

Owen Boswarva@owenboswarva.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Yesterday in the Lords, Lib Dem peer Floella Benjamin floated the idea that tech companies and IT platforms should need a licence from Ofcom to operate in the UK hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0... HT @cyberleagle.bsky.social Is this still about protecting the children #openweb #techpolicy

Baroness Benjamin (LD) My Lords, I thank the Government for listening to the voices of concern, including those of the bereaved parents, for our children’s safety to be at the forefront of all our minds. As we move forward to the next steps, it might be a bit late in the day to make this suggestion, but I have an idea to throw into the mix. It may sound radical, but it is for the tech companies and IT platforms to require a licence from Ofcom to operate in this country. It may sound like a crazy idea, but radio and TV companies need a licence, so why not tech companies and social media platforms? If they do not comply then their licence will be taken away from them or they will be fined huge sums. This is one way to get them to be focused. Are we bold or intrepid enough to do this? It could be the answer to keeping them focused and to keeping our children safe. Age assurance is the key which they need to operate to keep our children safe. As we move forward, I hope that everyone will make it their responsibility to do just that, in every way possible. Ofcom is vital to all this. I look forward to working with the Government on this important issue and to us keeping the focus of our minds on our children’s safety, happiness and contentment for the future.
@bakura23.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@paulbernal.bsky.social wait what! A under 16 ban AND a curfew, who the hell is the curfew for when you (think) you got rid of the under 16's news.sky.com/story/social...

Social media ban: Minister says 'some form of' age limit or restriction will be brought in

The Conservatives have been calling for a ban on under-16s using social media for months and have accused the government of dragging its feet by holding a public consultation before doing anything.

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