It's true, for example the UK online safety act has pushed users who want to access NSFW content onto more sketchy less safe sites and for people who have given there facial data and ID to a third-party company there data is now privy to a data breach
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2025
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Give it 2 or 3 years till the GoonGate docs drop with IDs and video history.
For sure, these companies that hold the data, one of them will have a decent size breach eventually, this data isn't safe
If they properly vibe-coded it, we are looking at weeks instead of years. Or rather, the reason it's not been breached already is that it's just not worth it yet.
These laws are being made by people who rape children so that should be your first clue
Yeah. No one is ever thinking of the children when they say, "Think of the children!"
It's a last ditch effort to get others on the side of a nefarious, self serving cause.
"It is about the children, you're all just too egotistical and pretend it's about privacy"
Some idiot on lemmy on a similar post weeks ago, about using real ID for age verification on porn sites.
Remember when everyone was upset about the patriot act and the NSA spying on us? What happened?
No shit?
You know, it never occurred to me that Match Group apps would be urging you to get verified for mass surveillance.
FML.
Mass surveillance through corporate means.
sigh