Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws
makeitwonderful@lemmy.today 15 hours agoIndividual sites will have their data leaked and aggregated by data brokers. Those data brokers both sell the aggregated data and experience data leaks themselves. The data keeps moving from actor to actor while the aggregation is continued until eventually finding it’s way into a public repo or security researcher data sets.
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
This is a compelling argument, but do you think its really a significant attack vector? Its already illegal to share or leak, even unintentionally this data, and from my understanding, if you chose to set your age to a lower bracket via this process, companies sharing (also collecting? Currently unclear on this.) this data would also break CCPA and possibly COPPA, and from my understanding, the companies are required to provide additional data privacy measures under California Civil Code.
Yes, these laws will be broken, but will it be on a significant enough scale, and with reliable enough information to be worth-while? Like, since this bans the use of data from those who set their age low, wouldn’t this likely reduce the data collection pool overall, not to mention inventiving adults to poison this data. For those who do illegally collect this data anyway, is it that much of an advantage compared to just asking the user’s age upon reaching the site as most sites currently do? Beyond that, when these sites operating illegally do leak their data, will that data be a realistic attack vector? Like I said to another commenter, collating data in this way seems extremely impractical and unreliable for predators. Wouldn’t those who want to seek out children just go to existing spaces where they can connect directly like Roblox or Discord?