Oh the cute little corpo is promising to delete your data, how can we not trust him🥺🥺
Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits
genevieve@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
“Reddit has stressed that this system is only to verify users’ age, and it has no interest in your identity. Lee further stated that Persona won’t know what subreddits you visit, and has promised it won’t keep users’ uploaded images more than seven days.”
Press X to doubt.
clot27@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Very careful wording there to switch between Persona and Reddit to conveniently omit one from the justification given by the other.
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
It is not just that, I don’t trust Persona security, it a malicious actor installed a silent program that monitors users and sends it to a command and control center they probably won’t know for months or even years. Cyber security these is very bad in most companies.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Google uses reddit for its AI training. Just saying.
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Why doubt, I mean they promised?
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Presses X furiously
dugmeup@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Time to go to LemmyNSFW
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
Under the new UK law, lemmynsfw would also need to have some kind of age verification for UK users.
donuts@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This. Can’t believe we’re seeing “lol Reddit sucks” when this is a country-wide implementation and has nothing to do with Reddit in particular.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
So, the UK sucks.
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You are correct. But this doesn’t lessen the extent to which reddit sucks.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Or it can just defederate from UK based instances.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Lemmy.zip blocks uk users on its front end but I think its contents is still federated.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
.zip blocks users from the UK iirc.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 hours ago
Real talk - or what? If LemmyNSFW isn’t based in the UK, what can they do?
Block it? I’d rather have that than deal with processing users face data.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Honestly I have no idea. I guess they could just block it if they don’t comply?
TheNamlessGuy@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
While I don’t know this situation, in general it tends to be up to the site to block access, rather than the other way around. If they don’t, some government branch may issue a fine to the server owners, and if it doesn’t get paid it’s seen as a crime committed in the UK. Might mean the fineé gets banned, the country they live in might get an extradition order, or whatever.
Again, no idea about this case in particular. This is just based on what I’ve seen under similar rulings.
Teal@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Even though LemmyNSFW is outside of the UK the admins of any instance will be responsible for verification of UK users because of this law. This is why .zip (Lemmy and PieFed) have geoblocked the UK. It’s a lot of work and responsibility to take on.
Here’s the post from DemiGodrick explaining this situation better than I can.
Important News - Geoblocking of the UK
ptu@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Just curious, how would this happen in practice? As I understand lemmy instances are defederated across the globe. Who would they send their demands to? Also there is already some nsfw content in lemmy, are those expected to respond now in some way?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Maybe they’ll just make the Fediverse illegal in the UK. Or maybe all non-corporate sites that can’t afford to pay a company like Persona.
lotharmatthaeus@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
That’s always down when I want to use it :(
hellequin67@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
It’s always up when I use it … Oh you meant the site, sorry
PushButton@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s always down for it :)