Neat. Is the author of that piece of engineering known? What subcontractor company made this?

Let’s celebrate this victory… even though it’s concerning that it is a recurring topic :-/

There’s nothing of the sort in OP’s post. Maybe you have such a use-case?

Also it’s literally implemented where I am from and the government isn’t the worse party yet for us.

Private from the service side, not from the trust provider obviously.

It works well enough across Europe with many of such systems being compatible enough for things like petitions at EU level.

Not perfect but much faster than the notary system… and way cheaper as well if your notaries are the same as mine.

I’m not advocating blind trust. Nor being too trusty. The specific point here is service access with need of proof of age.

The threat I was addressing in this instance is the service provider not the trust provider.

Other patterns apply for scenarios in which government is a threat a well.

Let’s not let perfect be the enemy of good enough.

In Belgium we have « it’s me » which is government - backed.

Based on configuration you can integrate a service with it and, if the service is respectful and not greedy, you can get a flag indicating majority of a person without the full PII.

The user sees on its screen what data will be provided to the service.

So it’s rather transparent and honestly not bad from a privacy perspective.

Personally I’m fan of ROA.

Now from being involved on providing said right to our beloved customers I have to say that weaponizing gdpr is definitely happening and that’s… not cool. And the weapon isn’t always aimed at said company : something it might be aimed at past love interests or worse I would imagine.

Still I believe the benefits outweigh the risks.

They don’t provide you any equipment ? Then good. It’s very typical for them to do so.

On top of client VPNs you might consider the possible other freebies from yr ISP such as router, WiFi access points and other network elements they provide you with. Set-op-boxes as well. All those equipments are absolutely ratting you as much as possible. Also any software including mobile apps they provide for support / billing / whatever.

Jokes on Reddit censorship aside the post is seemingly solid. Facts are making sense. This kind of transparency exercise would do a lot of good if done of other legislative initiatives. Though I don’t see any call to action and not much would be actionable anyway, it’s all beyond the reach of peasants.

Ahhahahah the link in the Reddit post has been locked pending validation xD

No surprise seeing the right voting for that shit. Tells me all I need to know about the actual motives….

I don’t know how it works for Google but the moment they invoiced you once they might be able to or more precisely they might have to nevertheless keep yr data for years for tax reasons… And then some because they might have to comply with obscure data retention laws or such. But as of the moment this deletion happens you might not be able to access it anymore indeed.

Yeah but it’s going to be more insidious than that. A few points in a vector somewhere in a large model used to personalise a quote. You typically never know what they fuck you about. Even here in Europe the right of access provided by gdpr might not reveal that bullshit: once the model has been training the atomic data is eventually purged…

If you hit the glasses hard enough it will to the job as good as a hammer… failing that it takes a tad too much power for a « magnet » to affect electronics at a distance.

Doesn’t prevent them to grab more via the application from the os exposed data besides what they get from the network test they run. From the Apple Store page they siphon a fair bit of data including location / usage data / « other data » and more… Which is likely why those services have a tendency to redirect users to apps: they get more details about them.

Hahahahaha didn’t saw that one coming… but definitely not the first time those sort of deflection are used. Now I’m no kiwi but I would be furious if I were. Fucking gambling of all the shady industries…

Yeah well imagine what it is when you are old yourself… having a majority of like aged friends and even older family… no one is ever leaving FB before they are ded :-/

Yeaaahhhh any competent DBA would be crucified for doing physical deletion nonchalantly in an actual corporate environment… Due to integrity issues within one database or across several ones in complex chains. Honestly a lots of the times logical deletion is preferred anyway. And then that deletion request would be propagated via events and then, maybe, possibly physically deleted. What’s the point in those over simplifications ? Makes dba looks lazy imho which isn’t a nice thing to do.