#verification
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“After creating a Digital ID in the Wallet app, you will be able to present it in person at #TSA checkpoints in select #USA #airports for #IdentityVerification purposes during domestic travel. However, Apple says it is not a replacement for a physical passport, and it cannot be used for international travel and border crossing purposes.
#Apple says the Digital ID feature is #secure, #private, and #compliant with REAL ID.
It will also be possible to use the #DigitalID feature for #age and #identity #verification in apps, online, and in stores, according to Apple.”
#phone / #MobilePhone / #identity <https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-delays-ios-26s-new-u-s-passport-feature.2465829/>
Since we're dealing with trolling "gotcha" posts this morning, let's pick on the UK for a moment. 
> "If you have a visitor, user, or customer from the UK, that means you're subject to UK laws!"
No.
If I walked into a tea shop in Taiwan, Japan, or South Korea and demanded they serve me English tea — claiming it was my right as a UK citizen — they’d correctly point out that I’m not in the UK.
Now, if that same tea shop started selling digital photos of teacups (PNG or JPEG files), and I visited their website and bought one, the shop — and its owner — does not suddenly become a UK citizen or fall under UK jurisdiction. Your demand for "a photo of English tea" is nonsense. You chose to visit their site and chose to make a digital purchase. That doesn’t make them answerable to your home country's laws.
Yes, the UK may pass laws claiming they govern the world — but they don’t. No country does. China, Russia, and others also pass laws asserting global jurisdiction, and we laugh. When the UK does the same, you should laugh too.
No one on the Fediverse — running a Fedi site or any other website — who is outside the UK, not hosted in the UK, and not using a UK domain name, needs to worry about UK laws.
You are not required to comply with their nonsense. That means you don’t have to verify every visitor to your “tea shop” (website), and you don’t have to block the doorway either.
…I had been critical of BlueSky for a long time (see above), now it confirms to me how unfree it is unfortunately not wanting to perceive it in whatness.
»Bluesky Implements Age Verification in South Dakota and Wyoming:
Anonymous speech is being traded for compliance, one state law at a time.«
https://reclaimthenet.org/bluesky-age-verification-south-dakota-wyoming-kids-web-services
#bluesky #verification #us #usa #law #anonymous #southdakota #wyoming
#bsky #freespeech #decentralized #censorship #privacy #uslaw
It is yet known that Android Developer Verification will not apply to apps installed via ADB as written in this support page:
Any app installed via Android Debug Bridge (ADB) will not require verification. This will ensure developers can easily build and test apps that are not intended or not yet ready to distribute to the wider consumer population.
This means keys are checked on installation but not on every run, since above exception exists.
Honestly, with that in mind, there is really no added benefits in terms of security for rolling out 
Developer Verification - it only profits Google by supplying ID documents of developers to them, and provides no benefits for end-consumers whatsoever 
"But trust doesn’t come only from the top down; it emerges from relationships, communities, and shared context. So, we’re also enabling trusted verifiers: organizations that can directly issue blue checks."
"Bluesky’s moderation team reviews each verification to ensure authenticity."
#BlueSky team, 2025
Pick one.
(1/2)
From watermarks to missing sources and credibility gaps, here's how you can sharpen your senses – and avoid falling for the latest wave of newscast fakes:
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-to-spot-ai-generated-newscasts/a-73053782
Useful media and information literacy feature by Monir Ghaedi & team for DW.
Announcing Gaza Verified
I’ve been having video conversations over Signal with people from Gaza who have Mastodon accounts on the fediverse in an effort to vouch for their authenticity.
This week, I whipped up a site to formalise this and to enable them to add a verified link to their Mastodon bios. Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of time they need to spend proving that their accounts genuinely belong to a person suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and help them with their fundraisers.
The first four accounts belong to:
• @Aseelsehwel
• @NouranKhaledGh
• @joynewacc
• @mohshbair
If you want to get on the site, please contact me. See the guide for more information: https://gaza-verified.org/guide
Please share and donate to their fundraisers if you can.
Thank you!
CC @palestine
Ironically, Nepal provides proof to my point — people do not need to comply with laws outside their jurisdiction — not even blocking.
If some random nation wants to go to the trouble — that is on them.
It is unfortunate, that Nepal has done this. But if this were your personal site, at least the burden was not on you.
Guys, Threads is now pushing ads to us while asking me to pay for my true self (the verified badge). So, let's chant together: "We agreed to be part of Threads' product! We are the product!
I can't find the thread to verify @stefano but this is the best I can do
Decentralized social network #Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s #age #verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so.
Who would have thought, that age verification might turn out to be a bad thing? Everyone?
I need to warn people about scammers who create accounts and try to trick us in to clicking on poisoned links
The amount of scam posts increased after that age verification law in Mississippi was passed
Don't fall for those scammers
Age verification is not possible on the FediVerse
I've deliberately and I shall deliberately leave up those scam posts if they are attached to any of my toots, so that you can mute those accounts
#Warning #FediVerse #scammers #age #verification
^Z
Buenos días, hace unos días de los cambios del TOS de Bluesky y del bloqueo en Mississippi. Pues se confirma la dirección de Mastodon en este asunto.
https://lemmy.nz/post/27484636
Esto no va de buenos y malos, pero parece como si se estuvieran repartiendo ya los papeles de la peli.
Ich habe es heute endlich geschafft, die #verification auf Mastodon einzurichten.
Manchmal steht man sich einfach gedanklich selbst im Weg.
Also Leute, ich bin wirklich ich.
Fediverse doesn't have "verified accounts", but did you know that you can add a verified link to your profile? And it's free!
1. Make a simple website with https://simplepagebuilder.app.
2. Add a little bit of HTML. https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-keeping-the-web-free-open-and-poetic/#make-your-website-fediverse-ready
Dear #Verification, #GeoLocation and #OSINT people:
We've built a new #tool! 
It's called <You Stitch It> and allows you to...
...create panoramas from videos and photos... 
...magnify single frames... 
...and download them. 
It's free to use, of course. And you're more than welcome to take it for a spin.
For detailed info and instructions, check out our latest blog post, written by co-developer Julia Bayer:
https://innovation.dw.com/articles/you-stitch-it-video-to-panorama-view