Don't worry, your data will remain private. We'll have it, and we'll sell it, of course, but that's our right. Also, we might be hacked when some bad guy guesses our Pa$$worD, or we make an oopsie and leave the entire server open and unencrypted. But, other than that, your driver's license is safe with us.

I love "all photos are encrypted so your information remains private". Encrypted to whom? Private from whom? I don't want you to have it! I'm more worried about you then the guy at the coffee shop. He can already see my face!

You're going to have a hard time judging my age by a photo you can't decrypt, so don't pull that shit with me.

They forgot option 3: uninstall the app

Yah... My old (abandoned) reddit account is quite old, if you cant prove im not a child by the account being two decades old, thats a you problem. Find me in 2029 and we can talk, but until then, were going no contact.

[Updates DNS and router block list]

I wonder if there would be a market for life-like heads on… like… a ventriloquist dummy type of thing…. And I very much mean for security bypassing get your filthy mind out of there.

At what point do we normalize a civic duty to avoid parasitic data miners

Quit reddit, you, filthy animal!

Persona and other third‑party age verification providers have been cited in broader debates about the privacy and security implications of online age checks. News coverage of Reddit’s UK rollout focused on short photo retention windows and the separation of user account data from verification data, while also highlighting civil liberties concerns about expanding age restrictions online. Founders Fund's investment in Persona has been scrutinized in broader discussions of government surveillance and identity verification technologies due to its ties to Peter Thiel, the founder of data-analytics company Palantir. Song has denied operational relationships between Persona and Palantir or U.S. government agencies.

In February 2026, a security researcher discovered publicly-exposed code on an instance of Persona's verification system used by the U.S. government's Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), which revealed information about the company's verification pipeline. The discovery led to further evaluations of Persona's operations; the messaging service Discord stated that it would end its trial use of Persona for age verification in certain territories, and evaluate alternative providers and methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_Identities

Besides the recommendation to drop sites that demand privacy-breaching validations, seeking the legal venues is important too, else people will just lose ground as they try to avoid the issue.

BTW, OP, unlike reddit, on lemmy you can edit your post titles :P

I refuse to give this information outside of serious financial or governmental proceedings, where you might expect that you will have to deposit a proof of identity.

I'll rather drop every single platform requiring this then to engage with this circus. "What about the kids" my ass.

"All photos are encrypted.."

Why the Hell do you need to fucking store them? If I rejuvenate to a 12 year old?!

Is reddit dead yet?

Surely some mathematician knows some magic cryptography to do age checks with zero trust and no data shared?

Just recently I had to travel to Germany by train on short notice. The German online ticket portal also wanted my ID and selfie when paying because it was an iNtErNaTiOnAl journey. I just booked it through my local country's international ticketing portal and they didn't even mention it.

I tricked the aliexpress age verification with an image from google. I wonder if this will work here too.

Yeah my state just started this now. What the fuck. I dont remember seeing a vote on this shit.

I was like "which shitass site is that supposed to be" and started reading below Reddit and started laughing, i'm already gone ha ha bye Felicia!

“Let’s not”

Identity theft 'bouta pop off crazy style in the future.