The politicians that voted for this better be also hacked.

We told you so ...

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

Do these companies get criminally charged for failing to protect consumers or does the executive branch give them high fives and tax breaks?

They created a huge database of personal information, that got “hacked”.

I’ve got bridges to sell to anyone that that believes this wasn’t the plan.

Everything is safe and secure with us! Until that isn't, that is...

I was unable to read the article b/c,

Ah, n/m, if I fully disable JS on the site, it loads without that interception! Anyone else ran into that, try disabling all JS. I had most disabled but was still running 1st party JS from the domain.

I've read a few other stories about it. But none of them gave a way to know if you were in the breach. Early on you could apparently do it through the group who did the breach. But 1st I wouldn't want to do that. And 2nd that has been taken offline anyway.

Is there a known, private way? And without giving private info to an untrustworthy party in the process?

Now to verify your id you need to mail a Polaroid of your id sitting on today’s newspaper