ID Verification Social Media is Here...

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[00:00:00]Well, there's actually a social media now specifically for people who have done ID age verification. The new European Wocial is launching in a few days. It'll be launching on May 9th and will require a governmentissued ID and biometric scanning to be allowed to make an account. You heard that correctly.

[00:00:16]You cannot use this European social media without actually giving over an ID. This is actually crazy because this is a European Commission's way to make sure that they can watch everybody in Europe and make sure that they are monitoring their social media posts.

[00:00:28]they can find out exactly who everybody is and they did the exact same guys.

[00:00:32]We're doing it to protect the kids.

[00:00:33]We're doing it to prevent bot accounts and yeah, the only way they could think to do that is to make everybody sign up with their digital ID, biometric data, all that stuff. So the website looks like this where it says WoW, trust your feed. I've already clowned on this little tagline that they have had on Twitter, but basically they say, "We believe in the need for a global trusted social media platform owned, run, and hosted in Europe. W is built on verified human users, transparency, privacy, and free speech. Oh my god, this is just hilarious to me. Privacy and free speech. To do anything on the website, you have to hand over an ID. How is there any sort of privacy there? What are you guys going to do? Tell us that we're going to go ahead and keep your information safe and we're going to just use it for the purposes of ID verification. Huh. Well, I can't help but feel like I've heard that before and there have been massive data leaks with pretty much every IDH verification related thing going on in like the last year or so. So many different social medias and random accounts in different countries, I might add, are getting data leaks through ID age verification.

[00:01:30]People are submitting their IDs to be able to use whatever social media that they want to the fullest extent and then all of a sudden, boom, they're in a data leak and now there's nothing they can do about it cuz their information is out there forever. What is going to make you guys different? How are we going to trust that you guys are going to keep our information safe? In fact, Europe is going ahead and endorsing this and making it like, you know, their social media. We're going to have this social media for transparency, privacy, and free speech. And yet, how are you guys going ahead and verifying age? Oh, through your awful age verification app.

[00:01:55]I'm sure you guys remember Europe's awful age verification app that they have developed. It's already been hacked twice. And yet, Europe claims that it is pretty much ready and available to release to the public. You guys already know, I made a few videos. A security researcher named Paul Moore went ahead and hacked the age verification app and was able to bypass it within minutes.

[00:02:12]And then a week or two later after the age verification apparently released some patches, you know, some security patches to make sure that that doesn't happen again, you just hacked it again quite easily. Remember, these are the apps and this social media by extension are going to be the guys that have all of your information and they're claiming that there's transparency, privacy, everything's going to be safe. And yet, the age verification app for Europe has already been breached twice. Wocial is it's only going to be a matter of time before this one gets hacked. I honestly don't understand why anybody would sign up for this one specifically because you're basically playing Russian roulette with your information. So, okay, I'm going to go ahead and sign up to this website, hand over an ID because I want a website free from bots. That's the only way you guys can think of to stop bots. Not through a capture system, not through a system where you make sure that there's enough account activity.

[00:02:56]Nothing like that really. The only way you can think of is to go ahead and submit an ID. That's the only way you can think of to make sure that people are human really. So, the website isn't publicly available yet. It will be on May 9th, but you can join a wait list after entering your information over here. So, I'm just going to go ahead and enter some fake information over here and see what it says over here. I wish to receive short regular CEO email updates about W's progress or more accurately, their downfall and information integrity. I can unsubscribe at any time. Okay, buddy. Let's go ahead and join the wait list and see where it takes us. Please check your email to confirm your sign up. We want to build W together with you. Beta access will be rolled out gradually. Join the wait list to secure your preferred usernames. So, sorry for the anyone who wanted the username Spike Sphincter. Too late. I beat you to the punch with that one. But anyways, yeah. So, this is going to be their social media. Let's go ahead and read their privacy not to. See if we can find something in there. Wocial is a social network designed with a foundational commitment to user privacy.

[00:03:48]Oh man, these guys got to be trolling.

[00:03:49]Like, there's no way. The platform requires that each account be associated with a verified human identity in order to maintain the integrity and authenticity of its user base. But you just said you're committed to user privacy, but now you're saying that to use your website, everybody has to hand over an ID. Seems like pretty conflicting statements there.

[00:04:06]Notwithstanding this verification requirement, we do not collect, retain, or otherwise access information sufficient to ascertain the actual identity of our users. This approach ensures that identity verification and user privacy remain complimentary objectives, enabling us to confirm the legitimacy of the accounts on our platform while preserving the anonymity of our users in accordance with applicable privacy principles. Okay, so if this is the case, right, why did you guys even make this social media to begin with? Is it because you want to make it so there's no bots on your platform? So the only alternative you can think of is that everybody has to hand over an ID and you guys are claiming that it's based on user privacy. So for the people who made WoW or Locial as it'll be called after they have their inevitable data leak, I have a question for you guys, right? You guys say that you guys aren't going to be using our ID verification information for any nefarious means. you're not going to retain it any longer than you have to and you're just doing it to go ahead and verify the IDs of your users.

[00:05:00]My question is, haven't you heard all these other people say this too?

[00:05:03]LinkedIn, Discord, France's government, all these people saying, "Don't worry, your information is safe with us. You don't have to worry about it getting leaked." So, what makes you guys any different? Why should we trust you guys when all these other companies, organizations, even governments over here, are saying the exact same thing?

[00:05:17]And yet, they've had data breaches. And the data breaches literally proved that they were actually keeping our information way longer than they said that they would, which essentially confirms that they were lying. What makes you guys different, Wo? I really want to know because I do not believe you guys for a second when you say that you won't be keeping the information of your users longer than you have to. To achieve this objective, identity verification is performed by Widentity, a separate legal entity and separate controller under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. So now they say what personal data we process and how we collect it. weight list sign up. You know, you have to give them all your information in terms of what country you're from, preferred handle, stuff like that. As the operator of a federated service based on the AT protocol, we collect and process the following categories of personal data in connection with your use of our platform, identity and account information, user generated content, social graph data, engagement and interaction data, account settings and preferences, search and discovery activity, and technical and session data. So, so far seems like any regular social media, right? However, let's go over to the retention of personal data section. Your personal data will be stored by us and our service providers in accordance with applicable data protection laws to the extent necessary for the processing purposes set out in this privacy notice. Okay. So basically your personal data is going to get stored but they don't say exactly how long and that is where the problem arises right. You guys are not even giving us an arbitrary number of how long it'll be. You're just saying yeah we're going to have to store your personal information you know to the extent necessary for the processing purposes. But what does that exactly mean? If this notice was written by literally any other website where you don't have to provide an ID, let's say Twitter, right? Let's say you don't even give Twitter your name, just your username and your email address and stuff. If they had that type of personal data, yeah, I mean, still it can be somewhere in a leak out there if you get hacked, but it's your username and your email. It's not that big of a deal. For these guys, the personal data, quote unquote, that they're referring to is your freaking ID verification, dude.

[00:07:07]Your ID. So, what do you mean you're going to be storing it and you're not even saying for how long? Subsequently, we will delete your personal data in accordance with our data retention deletion policy or take steps to properly render the data anonymous unless we are legally obliged or permitted to keep your personal data longer for legal compliance, tax, accounting or auditing purposes or to detect and prevent illegal activity. And here's another issue, right? A lot of people in the EU right now are actually getting arrested for some pretty stupid stuff. So, maybe some stupid social media post that they made where they, you know, said something that they shouldn't have said. people are getting arrested for it, right? So, basically what they're saying is, yeah, on our social media where you do your ID verification, not only are we going to keep your information in accordance with whatever crap that they said, but also if we think that you're doing illegal activity. Now, what is illegal in the EU right now seems to be up to the discretion of whoever gets offended by the social media post that you make. So, I don't know. I mean, it just seems like a scary time to be over there right now.

[00:07:58]And it's just really weird and sad to me that they don't actually tell you how long your data will be kept. And they're doing this on purpose, by the way.

[00:08:04]They're purposely using this arbitrary language where they don't actually specify anything because they know it'll get them out of a legal situation if they ever get sued. As far as legally permissible or required, we restrict the processing of your data instead of deleting it. Okay, this is not at all comforting.

[00:08:20]So, basically, we're going to keep your data, but we're going to make sure it doesn't get processed. I mean, what the hell, man? This applies in particular to cases where we may still need the data for the performance of the contract or for the assertion of or defense against legal claims or where such retention is otherwise required or permitted by law.

[00:08:37]So again, they're not actually specifying when your information will get deleted. If it will get deleted, apparently sometimes they won't delete it. They'll just restrict access to it.

[00:08:45]This is not very comforting language here. And remember, I'm a stupid person, right? I'm just looking at a few lines over here that I feel like are concerning. I'm sure there are people who are very well-versed in like legal jargon and stuff like that that can do a full breakdown on their privacy terms over here and find some very concerning stuff. If a dummy like me was able to find some concerning stuff within a few minutes, imagine what some pretty smart people out there could find. Let me know what you guys' thoughts are on the situation in the comments. There is now an age verification social media where you cannot access it unless you hand over an ID. And oh my god, I unfortunately predict that there will be some crazy data leaks with this website when it eventually goes live. Please leave a like in the video if you enjoyed it and subscribe for more.