Post B5Cv8SKjZaWAsdpLs0 by retrimental@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B5Bqpvk5PgbXc6dWQC by eff@mastodon.social
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       “Discord is in the business of making money by selling their users’ personal data,” EFF's Samantha Baldwin told @arstechnica. “They are implementing ‘age verification’ to meet regulatory compliance and to collect more data about their customers, not protect children.” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/dad-stuck-in-support-nightmare-after-teen-lied-about-age-on-discord/
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ByonjwTnCG8eXdvU by rhetoricalodon@mastodon.social
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       @eff @arstechnica Great piece. But please explore the more critical angle: age verification requiring docs that many people don't have creates a digital divide, excluding stateless folks, refugees, and marginalized groups from legit access to the internet and in some jurisdictions: the operating system.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5C91dLRRGwXCkq63k by tecHunt@mastodon.social
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       @eff @arstechnica this just goes back to the old saying: "If a service is free, you are the product."
       
 (DIR) Post #B5CPiuzVIymVeUEvOS by deepmud@mas.to
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       @eff awful story!  😩
       
 (DIR) Post #B5Cv8SKjZaWAsdpLs0 by retrimental@mastodon.social
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       @eff @arstechnica I read the article, and what I took from it is the dad is either an idiot or naive.He knows about the Discord breach, and claims he isn't a rookie with technology, yet he still goes ahead and lets his daughter submit identification.And this is after going through support hell with Discord.I just can't wrap my head around a parent willingly providing an opportunity for his daughter's info to be caught in another breach.Am I the asshole?