#WSocial’s advice here is TERRIBLE - deleting your account won’t change a thing. Just now I found the record of a minor (15yo) who was verified by #WIdentity. His account status is now “taken down” but his full name, nationality and approx. date of birth are still visible on W's verification list!
W Social
We understand that you may prefer not to share your age range and nationality publicly. If so, you can delete your account under Settings → Account → Delete account. You can read more about how it works and the reasoning behind it here: wsocial.eu/profile/wsocial.eu/post/3mxgl…
Oct 12, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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Jan Lindblad (@jan.wsocial.eu)
Hi Matthew, Thanks for the heads up! I am indeed ok with sharing this information publicly -- it was my informed choice. To foster trust and safety online, I think it fair to know and share current nationality and rough age (+/- 18 months). Sharing legal name is only for those who wish to do so.
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even if you're going to do legal identity verification (which sucks!), i don't like that they didn't even attempt to make the user own their own data in their own repo, and make verification only be a record with a strongRef in W's repo. why publish full names and birthdates to W's own repo? wild
Kirsten Fiedler
🤦♀️ #WSocial is posting legal names, nationalities and approx. birthdays of verified users as a public record on the Atmosphere. Confronted, they claim it's "by design" 🤯
have you ever done an age/ID biometric verification online? congrats, you're fucked. your biometric data is now permanently circulating the dark web with no way to stop it
your face just got leaked. permanently.
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♍ Bee 🐝
I'm upset about age verification stuff today and might do a thread or write up later Just catching up with the mercor data breach and fml. fuck all of our lives. Especially re: the doxxing of sex workers. jesus fucking christ
We understand that you may prefer not to share your age range and nationality publicly. If so, you can delete your account under Settings → Account → Delete account. You can read more about how it works and the reasoning behind it here: wsocial.eu/profile/wsocial.eu/post/3mxgl…
Can someone help @xeronimo.wsocial.eu ? @pds.dad nobody knows more than you on this topic. @wsocial.eu don’t have a migration feature and their account deletion is broken.
Jerome Herr
Is it possible to move one's W account to eurosky?
Dear #WSocial verified users, who had your account verified after 16-09-2026: if you are not comfortable with your full name, nationality and approx. age being shared *outside* of W, on the open web, please DO NOT delete your account. You need to file a proper right of deletion request instead #GDPR
Alban_bdx
@wsocial.eu @anna.wsocial.eu I’m not happy that my approximate date of birth and nationality can be read by anyone in my W Social verification record. Please explain your legal basis for publishing it, and delete it. #WsocialFacts #GDPR
