Age Verification
UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
The UK government will ban under-16s from social media, with regulations due before Christmas and the rules taking effect in spring 2027. To enforce it, platforms must age-check their users. In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they’re over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial […]
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Hackers claim Discord breach exposed data of 5.5 million users
Discord says they will not be paying threat actors who claim to have stolen the data of 5.5 million unique users from the company’s Zendesk support system instance, including government IDs and partial payment information for some people. The company is also pushing back on claims that 2.1 million photos of government IDs were disclosed in […]
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