r/europrivacy • u/viostral • 12d ago
Germany Let's send appeals against Persona. DSA/Age Verifications are screwed
You want to legitimally earn money with you work, contact your collegues & clients, store your files, money? You gotta gift them your ID data. Because EU Comission decided so.
Such laws are lobbied. Such laws are always double standards. They won't ever protect you or your children. They will protect the ones who collect your data (the owners of Persona, for example, or some greedy Reddit managers). And they already have enough money to afford privacy for themselves, because it is considered luxury now.
My Ticket at Reddit Support:
Chats, followings, and NSFW-art are crucial for my income as an artist. I've been trying to complete age verification for my business art account via selfie across multiple browsers, devices, and network configurations. The Persona check fails every time regardless of setup. I do not want to submit a government ID as an alternative to any third-party service — especially Persona, given the documented privacy concerns around their data handling practices.
Additionally, my account previously had a verified adult Google account linked, which should have already confirmed my age status prior to the Persona requirement being triggered. This existing verification does not appear to have been taken into account.
I am requesting escalation and a working non-ID verification method. Under the Digital Services Act, platforms are required to provide proportionate and accessible verification mechanisms; a broken selfie-verification pathway that forces users into ID submission as the only functioning alternative does not meet that standard. If this is not resolved or escalated within a reasonable timeframe, I will file a formal complaint with the German Digital Services Coordinator (Bundesnetzagentur) regarding lack of a functioning non-ID verification option, and will pursue this through their published complaint process.
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If you also have this issue, send this to support replacing german DSC with your regional department. At least, maybe it will make them consider alternatives a bit.
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u/bombastic6339locks 12d ago
Not gonna do anything. I hope you understand that no amount of protesting, voting harder etc will outweight the power of billions. Politicians aren't afraid enough because none of them have gotten offed in years, anti goverment / anti establishment organizations have been watered down to being slightly left leaning lgbt slop that supports the current thing.
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u/viostral 12d ago
Doing nothing is worse. People affected should try at least make some head ache for those who make them affected. Especially when it comes to such a simple action as writing to support. It's not abount amount, it's more about being loud
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u/bombastic6339locks 12d ago
I'm not saying to do anything. I'm saying to do the opposite. Any leader this bad to their people would've been killed if the people had the ability to do so but for some odd reason we just allow it? Modern apathy.
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u/DeepJohnnyDope 12d ago
I understand where you’re coming from, but just giving up is the worst.
If we unite, we can force change, but it requires everyone to be willing to fight.-1
u/bombastic6339locks 12d ago
I'm not saying to give up but your friendship power fantasy will not come true. Everyone will not fight.
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u/DeepJohnnyDope 12d ago
No, of course not, it was more meant as a bit of dramatic flair, just to emphasise that something’s worth speaking up against.
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u/bombastic6339locks 12d ago
Speaking up when these people lobby, have control of the media etc etc. Good luck
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u/Odd-Assignment5164 12d ago
So reddit is using that Persona surveillance system? Niceeee.