Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.
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@evacide
One of the many reasons to be against #ageverification software
It gives the wrong people & companies tons of data, often #biometric ones
Therefore we transfers #power exactly the wrong people & #corporations
And as we can know latest since #Edwardsnowden companies do share data with governments
The cornerstone of the #chinese #surveillance #state is #realnameregistration
Don't give #biometrics to #evilcorp, especially not for cheap thrills
Do not hand data to #fascists
@evacide
One of the many reasons to be against #ageverification software
It gives the wrong people & companies tons of data, often #biometric ones
Therefore we transfers #power exactly the wrong people & #corporations
And as we can know latest since #Edwardsnowden companies do share data with governments
The cornerstone of the #chinese #surveillance #state is #realnameregistration
Don't give #biometrics to #evilcorp, especially not for cheap thrills
Do not hand data to #fascists
@evacide The Kafka-Machine is here.
@evacide if something is free, never forget to ask who pays for it, who benefits?
I personally think it's great, though, that there are also people striving _for_ a better internet. That gives me hope. 🙂
@evacide surely Discord's third age-verification partner will be completely TRUSTED and DEPENDABLE and not at all part of the Torment Nexus being built around these services.
@evacide
There is an frightening thread about the use of Person for the LinkedIn verification
https://mastodon.social/@bsletten/116112393904621126
@evacide
There is an frightening thread about the use of Person for the LinkedIn verification
https://mastodon.social/@bsletten/116112393904621126
This level of centralisation of data is so so dangerous. Putting all our eggs in one basket digitally makes for a very inviting target, but this sort of infrastructure also concentrates power.
Knowledge is power, and this level of control can easily calcify our political systems and eat away at democracy.
@evacide l, “they took the most powerful communication technology in human history and turned it into a slot machine that makes you sad. We're all rats in a skinner box pressing the lever for pellets of validation.”
Yup
@evacide and meanwhile the Australian government is claiming credit for protecting children by standing up to social media companies to force them to use this kind of tech.
I’m sure the pressure is in the opposite direction.
@evacide AI is becoming the new infamous punch card system.
@evacide
We won't surveill you
And if we do it won't be that bad
And if it was, at least it's secure
And if it' not we didn't mean it
And if we did you deserved it
@evacide serves them right!
@evacide Ah yes, "let us protect children by scanning their faces". What could possibly be wrong??? 🤡
“the software ‘flags you as a “suspicious entity” based on your face alone’ …”
Yay! Phrenology 2.0!
@evacide
Ooos
Page gone !!
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Persona’s exposed code compares your selfie to watchlist photos using facial recognition, screens you against 14 categories of adverse media from mentions of terrorism to espionage, and tags reports with codenames from active intelligence programs consisting of public-private partnerships to combat online child exploitative material, cannabis trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, romance fraud, money laundering, and illegal wildlife trade.
Once a user verifies their identity with Persona, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks and scours the internet and government sources for potential matches...
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So to keep kids safe from online predators, we're willing to *horribly* invade their privacy and sell all their data to predators? I see the system is working as intended 😮💨
@evacide 
There is a security researcher called Celeste, just like meee! Weirdly enough, that makes me happy 
@evacide If it has corporate police state, you can be sure it has Peter Thiel’s fingers on it!
@evacide Why am I not surprised by the links with law enforcement? It's relentless
@evacide Discord is carrying on like their previous age verification vendor didn’t leak a bunch of users’ sensitive data (because they were retaining said data which Discord claimed they weren’t going to do).