ID age verification just had its biggest data leak yet, even bigger than Persona's. According to @CyberNews, an unsecured database linked to IDMerit exposed one billion personal records across 26 countries.
Age verification was always about one thing: violating your privacy.
Today AWS servers went down and so did the government One Login digital ID system
Millions of people were suddenly locked out of vital services just because all authentication now runs through one central system hosted on a single commercial cloud.
Could there be a clearer warning
This is not a theoretical risk.
This is what happens when all access to government services depends on a single provider and a single platform.
One outage and the whole country grinds to a halt
If AWS can crash and take out government logins nationwide.
What happens during a cyberattack?
What happens in a crisis?
What happens when there is just a technical glitch?
We are being told to put our trust our business our legal status and our most sensitive personal information into one digital basket
Today proves just how fragile and risky that model is.
Digital ID is not about convenience or security.
It is about centralising risk and making everyone more vulnerable to outages attacks and bureaucratic mistakes.
It only takes one outage to lock the country out.
#NoToDigitalID
The Discord breach is another example of the risk of collecting IDs for age verification. If you’re going to collect sensitive data, you have to protect it. We’re not seeing it protected well so far.
@MartinSLewis Governments increasingly use digital IDs
and automated AI systems to decide who
is eligible for social services. This sounds
convenient but can cut off people’s access to
essential benefits. Data breaches and selling off your privacy to the highest bidders