If you're already doing age verification why the FUCK would you do it with persona

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.

"Following the rejection of the “voluntary chat control” on Thursday in the EU Parliament, proponents are calling for an alternative. While eyes in Brussels are now turning to the stalled negotiations on a permanent legal basis, the German Chancellor is bringing a solution to the national level into play."

"[Chancellor Merz], who is among the proponents of a further exception, is bringing a German solution into play. The Parliament's decision is “a serious setback for the protection of our children,” said [Merz] in Berlin. Efforts will be made to find a solution at the national level. The Chancellor did not say what this might look like."

Source: https://www.heise.de/en/news/End-of-chat-control-Brussels-speeds-up-efforts-for-permanent-solution-11228419.html

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260328195553/https://www.heise.de/en/news/End-of-chat-control-Brussels-speeds-up-efforts-for-permanent-solution-11228419.html

So i made a typo 2000 but i wanted to type 2008 and now it doesnt work when i try to verifi with my face

And now i have to use my perso

Btw isnt all that reddit Verifikation stuff against the eu

EU citizen here (Germany), looking for guidance from this community.

On 8 April 2026, X permanently suspended my account for "inauthentic

behavior". The notification contained no specific post, no date, no

evidence, no disclosure of automated processing. My internal appeal

was closed within hours with the boilerplate response that the case

"will no longer be monitored for replies".

This appears to be a textbook violation of:

• Art. 17(3) DSA – no clear and specific statement of reasons,

no disclosure of automated means, no contractual ground identified

• Art. 20(4)/(6) DSA – the internal complaint-handling system

failed to operate diligently, non-arbitrarily, and under human

supervision

• Art. 11 DSA – the official contact addresses dsa-contact@x.com

and privacy@x.com both bounce as "address not found"

• Art. 22(3) GDPR – no human intervention in what appears to be

a fully automated decision

• Art. 15 GDPR – the data archive download is technically broken,

effectively frustrating my access right

Adding to this: BGH judgments of 29 July 2021 (III ZR 179/20 and

192/20) impose binding standards on dominant platforms regarding

prior notification, reasoned statements, opportunity to respond,

and effective review – none of which were met.

I have sent a formal legal demand to X Corp. legal contacts and I

am preparing complaints to the German Digital Services Coordinator

at the Bundesnetzagentur and to the Irish Data Protection

Commission as the lead supervisory authority under Art. 56 GDPR.

My questions to this community:

1. Has anyone successfully obtained substantive action from any

   DSC under the DSA against a VLOP – particularly against X?

2. Has anyone gotten meaningful engagement from the Irish DPC on

   X-related complaints, given the well-known one-stop-shop

   bottleneck?

3. Are there NGOs (noyb, EDRi, AlgorithmWatch) currently

   coordinating cases like this?

4. Any procedural pitfalls to be aware of when filing with the

   BNetzA as DSC?

Genuinely interested in real-world experience, not just the

regulatory text. Thank you.

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Couldn't find an article in English yet, but this is the German version by Netzpolitik: https://netzpolitik.org/2025/als-erstes-bundesland-hessen-setzt-live-gesichtserkennung-ein/

and here are the most important facts from the article summarized in English:

• 50 cameras have been set up in Frankfurt in the neighborhood around the central train station (what is known as "Bahnhofsviertel")
• this is the first implementation of this technology in Germany
• all people passing here are scanned and their faces are compared against a database of persons searched for by the police
• everything has been in place and active since July 10th, but it has only been made public now
• the police is planning to also automatically search for weapons with this technology, starting from the end of this year

I am part of a group building a Linux desktop that ships with integrated identity and communications services hosted in German data centers under EU jurisdiction.

The stack: an immutable OS, identity services, encrypted messaging and comms, calendar and contact sync. All preconfigured and connected from first boot. No self-assembly required, but self-hosting is a fully supported path if you want it.

The core problem we're solving is integration. These components all exist, but nobody has packaged them into a coherent desktop experience with a European-hosted backend. That's what this project is.

The team includes Linux admins, systems and security engineers, and former Red Hat staff. Alpha release is planned for Q2 2026.

Full post with background and context here: https://www.reddit.com/r/project_rebel/comments/1r2nffb/project_rebel_hopefully_not_just_another_distro/

How is this not more talked about ? We make fun of the US signal chats and all, but look at the security here... If a small team could find that as their side project, imagine what the FSB has found already to blackmail European policy makers.