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... People like Jonathan Haidt in his new book like to pretend that there's some magical way of doing privacy-protective age verification by outsourcing it to a third party, but that just passes the buck and makes that third party a target. Just a few weeks ago, we talked about this a bit in the context of Australia, where a third-party age ID verification vendor used by bars had a breach, leaking more than 1 million customer records.

Of course, some people would say, "but that's a bar, that's different than a website."

Well, then, this new story should catch your attention. First reported by 404 Media, AU10TIX, an Israeli-based online identification company used by TikTok, ExTwitter, Uber, LinkedIn, PayPal, Fiverr and others has been leaking drivers' licenses. For over a year. ...