https://archive.ph/gQOcL

🪪 The recent idscan.net (&more?) breach exposed over 153M Driver's Licenses + 10m IDs + 579k Medical Cards mostly from the US & Canada.

Age verification aka ID verification proponents should really think about how unsafe data is once it's collected en masse.

Citizens' Security & Privacy need to be prioritized and considered BEFORE implementing any form of verification for anything.

Are the Western courts in charge of protecting the people sleeping right now? 💤

From the article:

“it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana.”

Worth noting that 5 US states (e.g. Florida) have stopped issuing standard drivers licenses and effectively force their residents to obtain a “Real ID” which includes additional data -- which of course makes more sensitive data available to cybercriminals.

(edit) BTW, would be useful to have a free-world venue for posts just about data breaches. Proposal here.

Update: Source of the leak revealed

The IDScan verification giant got breached

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51429798

🪪 The recent idscan.net (&more?) breach exposed over 153M Driver's Licenses + 10m IDs + 579k Medical Cards mostly from the US & Canada.

Age verification aka ID verification proponents should really think about how unsafe data is once it's collected en masse.

Citizens' Security & Privacy need to be prioritized and considered BEFORE implementing any form of verification for anything.

Are the Western courts in charge of protecting the people sleeping right now? 💤

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51429798

🪪 The recent idscan.net (&more?) breach exposed over 153M Driver's Licenses + 10m IDs + 579k Medical Cards mostly from the US & Canada.

Age verification aka ID verification proponents should really think about how unsafe data is once it's collected en masse.

Citizens' Security & Privacy need to be prioritized and considered BEFORE implementing any form of verification for anything.

Are the Western courts in charge of protecting the people sleeping right now? 💤

🪪 The recent idscan.net (&more?) breach exposed over 153M Driver's Licenses + 10m IDs + 579k Medical Cards mostly from the US & Canada.

Age verification aka ID verification proponents should really think about how unsafe data is once it's collected en masse.

Citizens' Security & Privacy need to be prioritized and considered BEFORE implementing any form of verification for anything.

Are the Western courts in charge of protecting the people sleeping right now? 💤

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1374876/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses-including-u-s-defense-secretary-pete-he