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Unsure if this is verified at all, but crikey. Even if it's a single-digit percent of that... nuts.
I am curious whether/why 2.1m users needed to complete manual verification...
Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach | The Guardian
https://alecmuffett.com/article/116459
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #discord #extortion #surveillance #vpns
If they were not obliged to collect the data then the…
DropsafeIn case you were somehow still confused about why people are so mad about age verification laws: this is why
#Technology #Cybersecurity #Privacy #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct
At Discord, protecting the privacy and security of…
discord.comDiscord Age Verification Data Hack: ‘The unauthorized party also accessed a “small number” of images of government IDs from “users who had appealed an age determination.”’
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115973
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #discord #surveillance
If you require platforms to age verify it means the…
DropsafeAnd there we are...
> The unauthorized party also gained access to a small number of government‑ID images (e.g., driver’s license, passport) from users who had appealed an age determination.
@neil rarely have I been so disappointed with my country. As this government veers closer to outright authoritarianism (digital ID cards, support of a genocide, attacks on trans rights), this law will empower them further.
I hope one day the people responsible for this face a human rights court. That’s the politicians that ignored human rights to win popularity from newspapers. That’s civil servants at Ofcom that “just followed orders” to enable it. It won’t happen, because there’s no fairness in this world. But it should. #OnlineSafetyAct
> We have been forced to geo-block access from the United Kingdom to the lgbtqia.space services and community.
> This action is a direct result of the UK's Orwellian "Online Safety Act" a piece of legislation that, despite its name, is incredibly dangerous to online privacy and makes the internet absolutely not safe for marginalized communities and the volunteers who run services like this one.
This isn't new, but I saw it again this morning, and it made me sad.
@abbiistabbii@blahaj.zonehttps://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack Oh look, it's exactly what everyone said would happen with the #OnlineSafetyAct.
Long bet: Within the next 5 years, a country currently within the EU or Five Eyes will pass legislation to restrict the use of VPNs for personal use; either requiring linking VPN accounts with official ID, requiring VPN providers to monitor and store user usage data, or blocking their use outright. #OnlineSafetyAct
the UK's #OnlineSurveillanceAct really made a lot of people mad.
now they're going to make digital ID and social credit scores mandatory too
Yes yes, I know it's actually called the #OnlineSafetyAct but it's not about protecting anything.
Imgur Blocking UK Highlights Age Verification Regulatory Catch-22
Imgur has blocked the UK after complaints about its violations of privacy of its age verification system.
https://www.freezenet.ca/imgur-blocking-uk-highlights-age-verification-regulatory-catch-22/
#Censorship #News #Privacy #AgeVerification #fine #ICO #Imgur #OnlineSafetyAct #UK
Cyber Waffle: “They Changed The Online Safety Act” ; this guy has done several decent videos, I wish he wasn’t doing the hoodie cyber anon-schtick, but the content is mostly sane…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115341
#AgeVerification #CyberFlashing #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #UkLabour #censorship #surveillance #vawg #vpns
Online Safety Act: A well-intentioned disaster? | Professional Security Magazine
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115334
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns
As internet users become desensitised to handing over…
Dropsafe…of course when Imgur self-censors itself out of the UK, it takes with it all of the websites that use it as a kind of CDN for OC
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115322
#AgeVerification #HabboHotel #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #imgur #surveillance #vpns
Oh dear. I wonder what else is impacted? Reddit?
DropsafeImgur blocks access to UK users after [Ofcom] proposed regulatory fine | BBC News
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115312
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #imgur #ofcom #surveillance
@Lazarou@mastodon.social@PoliceStateUK just as well I deleted all the images I had on Imgur when they said they were going AI....
“We have been clear that exiting the UK does not allow an organisation to avoid responsibility for any prior infringement of data protection law, and our investigation remains ongoing."
China: We have this firewall to monitor and block outbound traffic.
UK: That sounds like a lot of work to implement. We've achieved a similar result by being so hostile to site operators that they block us instead. All the cost is on someone else!
It sort of sucks working in tech in a country that is really hostile to technology: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1nu63bx #ukpol #ThinkOfTheChildren #OnlineSafetyAct
i heard last night that imgur was blocked, but i was a bit drunk so i didn't verify it
until this morning, when i actually needed to use it
oh my good god, it is blocked
#OnlineSafetyAct strikes again
and it makes me angry that out of touch MPs are blocking websites on the internet that are not even remotely the problem
