Exposed Persona Frontend Reveals Extensive Biometric Surveillance Stack Behind Age Verification - ID Tech
Security researchers investigating Discord’s age-verification implementation have discovered a publicly exposed frontend belonging to Persona Identities, Inc., revealing that the identity-verification vendor’s platform performs far more extensive checks than users […]

A New Form of Verification on Bluesky - Bluesky
We’re introducing a new layer of verification — a user-friendly, easily recognizable badge. Additionally, independent organizations can verify accounts directly through our Trusted Verifiers feature.

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

Building the world's trusted identity platform • Yoti
Our comprehensive suite of customer verification tools make it easy for businesses to be compliant and safe for people to prove who they are.

The Dangers of Age Verification Provisions
One proposed solution to ensuring safe youth online experiences is age verification provisions, which require platforms to confirm the ages

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious

Age verification is coming for the internet — and it’s already raising red flags
Legislative efforts to age-gate parts of the internet are gaining traction. Some experts warn of compliance complications and data security breaches.

sherif.eurosky.social/atmosphere-verification
A project for democratic, ID-free verification for everyone on the AT Protocol
More on the implementation/methodology side of the topic. Age gating laws/reasoning/discussions: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections…
On verification and coordination authority - Connected Places
EU Digital Identity Wallet Home - EU Digital Identity Wallet -
Online Age Verification Legislature (by Bee 🐝) — Semble
EU Digital Wallet

Bluesky Made Me Prove I Was An Adult—Here’s How I Did It

Keytrace - You be you, everywhere.

Why Gander Social?
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social)

Club
Verified Adult Creator Labeler (@verified.babesky.com)

Security researchers claim Persona, the provider behind Discord's UK age verification 'experiment', performs '269 individual verification checks' on user data, including those for terrorism and espionage

Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.

Hackers uncover the most alarming frontend leak in Discord’s age verification data

Users claim Discord's age verification test can be tricked with game characters

Wer dein Gesicht scannt, wenn du dich online verifizierst
The "Segregate-and-Suppress" Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online

The EU’s age verification app has a privacy problem — and it may be more than just a 'bug in an app'
csa-scientist-open-letter.org
What do Europeans want out of their EUDI Wallets New study sheds light - EU Digital Identity Wallet -
Commission publishes guidelines on the protection of minors

Social Media Ban Repository – information labs
dame (@dame.is)

OAuth Patterns - AT Protocol Docs - AT Protocol
atproto made simple: granular permissions - underreacted
graze-social/aip
Bluesky social oauth scope "Bad token scope"

oAuthLoginwithBsky.md