Discord published their approach to age verification in wake of UK child safety laws. The k-ID platform they worked with seems to take a logical technical approach to minimize risks of sensitive data breach and keep age verification private to the user. Temporary ID verification, no further storage of documents, verification videos are stored on device, etc.
With Discord, age verification felt urgent because it's a social platform with known grooming and CSAM problems. With something like OpenAI, it's less clear why it matters in its current state where it's mostly single-player. But it becomes way more problematic as advertisers gain more power on the platform and influence users. OpenAI doesn't want to eval every advertiser for harmful content, so instead they/and the government fall back on age as the filter and where to draw the line.
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The bankruptcy is because they have to buy everyone credit monitoring post-breach. And they cannot afford to do that because this is a grifter business impacting impacted millions of people. Funny thing is everyone already has credit monitoring but it's now the financial squeeze shutting down these harmful businesses.
How about we take a few folks from the USDS put them on a project to audit any business selling personal data without opt in from individuals, and proactively require them to prove funds to cover monitoring for everyone in their databases in case of breach? If they can't cover, they can't operate. Or at the very least the government could put them on a watch list to warn other businesses not to purchase data from them because risk is high / quality is poor.
At the very least, this would shut down the long tail of small data grifters, maybe even force the bigger brokers to re-evaluate their business model.
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