Buddy has clearly not been paying attention to the number of data leaks from literally every company that handles person info. From credit reporting to the government itself.
Thats the thing, even if porn sites try their best to protect your data, breaches are going to happen. It is impossible to say with 100% certaintity that the system has no bugs or exploits. It is impossible to say with 100% certaintity that employess handling the data and servers will not act maliciously.
He’s not an idiot. He pays attention, and has many smart people around him that push this agenda. The privacy breach is the point.
The real question should be why the conservative party considers it their business what people watch. Aren’t they supposed to be for less government intrusion into your life? Seems they want to have much more control than the liberals and NDP who simply want us to stay out of everyone’s private business.
If fucking credit bureaus are leaking my data then yeah, you can’t trust any company to keep your shit safe
To be fair I’d straight up trust the bigger porn companies more than the credit bureaus. They seem to have a much better grasp on technology and somehow manage to seem less sketchy.
Credit bureaus are just data brokers in disguise, so they’re shady, both in concept and by design.
Porn is part of the sex trade, so shady mostly by perception.
I don’t really think it’s possible to do anything more than try to safeguard my personal information. But if forced to choose between those two, I’ll pick a major porn site over a credit bureau every time.
Exactly! However, there are in fact shady porn companies in practice. The difference is:
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Some porn companies are shady
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While all credit bureaus are shady
At least with the former you can opt into participation. With credit bureaus you’re automatically being tracked by them unless you live in a tent and pay cash for everything.
Cyber security 101 in the early 2000’s. Rule 1: never expose your true identity. Today: Ron Johnson at 24 Albatross Lane is watching anal porn, again.
Does no one remember the Ashley Madison leaks including .gc.ca emails?
I don’t trust people to write secure code.
I really don’t trust people who run low-margin, sketchy businesses like porn sites to write secure code.
That’s the issue.
One of the reasons I don’t run my own webserver, or mailserver any more, or Lemmy/Mastodon instance now, is because I don’t want the liabillity of having to deal with content I don’t control. I’m amazed people run these at all, because it’s trivially easy to end up hosting very problematic content and get the attention of government in truly unpleasant ways.
I cannot imagine anyone anywhere in this chain wants the liability of trying to gatekeep content via ID like this. It’s a technical impossibility, and a liability quagmire.
