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Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook (www.bbc.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 63 points 11 months ago (12 children)

[Users] who believe they have been wrongly categorised as under 16 can ask for a review and submit a "video selfie" to verify their age. They can also provide a driver's licence or a government-issued identification.

Because uploading your image and ID to Meta isn't a security risk at all, oh no.

Why are governments helping Meta and friends harvest their citizens' data? Evil or clueness?

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago

    Surveillance capitalism just wants to completely destroy all anonymity for data harvesting, propaganda, and control purposes.

    ...

    Considering Epstein didn't kill himself, and literally none of his hundreds/thousands of oligarch-customers have faced any consequences, this pedelephant in the room could very well be what chat control, photo scanning, etc is actually all about.

    Parent takes photo of their baby/child in the rudey nudey > custom pedo-developed algorithm flags it as potential child porn > sends image/vid to gov server for "verification" > data gets "hacked" by pedos.

    Same system could easily be adapted to stealing everyones private sex pics/vids, as the entire idea is that it's performed by closed source applications in the background, without the user ever being aware.

    And with the way CSAM works, governments could easily insert hashes of ANY files — say a whistleblower steals the un-redacted Epstein files — so OS's/services would identify everyone who had downloaded that file(s), sending the alarm straight to the secret police's surveillance system; maybe they could be silenced before they've had a chance to tell anyone.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I "lost" my old FB account because they demanded my ID to verify my legal name, near 11 years ago. I fucking refuse, and will always refuse.

    Fuck Zucc.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    I got flagged on Facebook for using an obviously fake name. So I changed to a more plausible sounding name and it worked. I had prepared a doctored passport scan but it wasn't necessary.

    For another FB account they wanted me to get at least two user friends to verify they know me or some bs like that. I didn't bother. Years later I was able to log into that one anyhow.

    They know that they can't push too hard.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    mine is still blocked ;_; not that it is an issue anymore. I did create a second account for a bit but now am basically completely disconnected from their... "service"... of my own volition.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    What do you use instead for online social groups? Do you ever hit a group or business that's only on Meta apps, whether fakebook or whatsapp?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I guess I don't, anymore? I have my fedi-stuff, which basically comes down to Piefed and Pixelfed.

    I had a hard think about what things I use, and why, and realized all the social networks I used I didn't need. Facebook and Instagram became a ritual of watching Reels, and I didn't really use the rest. I liked keeping a photoblog though, hence having a Pixelfed account.

    If a business only has a Facebook presence...well I probably didn't need to interact anyway? And if I do I am sure I can find a number, an email, or go in person..

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Evil, since they probably have backdoors into all of those systems. Though I’m not sure why they want a bunch of videos of 16 year olds…

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Though I’m not sure why they want a bunch of videos of 16 year olds…

    Do they have pizza restaurants with secret basements in Aus? /s

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    It's hilarious how little the qtards are up in arms about literal evidence of a deep state pedophile cabal, but some emails that were entirely innocuous outside of the melted brain goo leaking from their ears. Jeffrey wasn't talking about walnut sauce in his emails about touching children, so it could mean anything!

    Well, not 'haha' hilarious, more 'existential crisis caused by countrymen with IQs lower than freezer temp' hilarious.

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  • [+] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)
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