just use your brain and don't upload your face and driver's license to a gossip website. when I was growing up, it was common knowledge that you shouldn't post your identity online outside of a professional setting.

The onus is on users to protect themselves, not the OS. As long as the OS enables the users to do what they want, no security policy will totally protect the user from themselves.

> just use your brain and don't upload your face and driver's license to a gossip website

Meanwhile, in the UK, new legislation requires me to upload my face and driver's license just to browse Reddit.

>just use your brain and don't upload your face and driver's license to a gossip website.

It isn't just gossip websites requiring this, and it isn't just gossip websites suffering breaches.

This is becoming more unfeasible as it becomes required to access online services like reddit, nexusmods, verification on dating apps. Sending facial, and documentation data is becoming mandated by governments across the world.

The app store is auditing & restricting functionality within the iPhone, but the backend protections are a wild west.

"use your brain" is no substitute for security. This is a hacker forum. We think about how to protect apps. Even smart people have slipped up

Good thing our children will learn all about this at their mandatory Internet Literacy Fundamentals course they have to take in high school.

Oh wait—no such thing exists!

It's up to us to teach this to our children. There's no hope of getting the current generations of Internet users to grasp the simple idea that app/website backends are black boxes to you, the user, such that there is absolutely nothing preventing them from selling the personal information you gave them to anyone they see fit, or even just failing to secure it properly.

Without being a developer yourself or having this information drilled into you at a young age, you're just going to grow up naively thinking that there's nothing wrong with giving personal information such as photos of your driver's license to random third parties that you have no reason to trust whatsoever, just because they have a form in their app or on their website that requests it from you.

Yeah, just upload the pictures of unsuspecting guys.

Sorry, well deserved ladies. It just made my day. ROTFL.

And please provide an app with all the names and pictures of the ladies who used it. So that I can easily check who not to date.

Nice, some unsolicited victim blaming!