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UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act (cybernews.com)
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah this is not worth the risk. Identity fraud of a politicians can be a serious crime. The pay off for this is a minor inconvenience for some desk worker and a few slop articles written about you.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It can be used by AI age verification tools on a bunch of websites. So yes I guess that is fraud. But these tools claim not to store the data in the verification process. If somebody could prove a made up ID was used then I suspect they're in bigger shit for a GDPR leak.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's a case of mutually assured destruction: to charge someone with impersonation, they would have to admit that they saved data that was supposed to be only for age verification and then deleted.

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