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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

  • Mike Masnick--Techdirt
  • published date: 2026-09-03 17:57:48 UTC

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we’ve been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. O…

from the age-verification-is-another-phrase-for-privacy-breach dept From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, b… [+7191 chars]