Social media platforms continue to require more and more users to share their personal information (for age‑verification, they say), through the upload of:

Government ID
Credit card / payment card
Image of the face



With any of these, the identify of a person making a post could be revealed. Even if they say they delete the data, history is full of publicly made promises to protect user data, that were broken.

Equifax

Explicitly promised to safeguard extremely sensitive financial data

Was legally obligated to do so

Still leaked the personal information of ~147 million people

Facebook

Promised to protect user data

Still leaked data repeatedly

Allowed Cambridge Analytica to harvest data without consent

Aadhaar (India’s national ID system)

Promised “military‑grade security”

Still leaked biometric and identity data of over a billion people

Ashley Madison

Promised “100% discreet service”

Still leaked names, emails, credit card data, and sexual preferences

Government ID databases

Governments routinely promise strict data protection

Yet multiple national ID systems have been breached or leaked

Internal employees leaking data

Every major tech company promises internal controls

Yet insider leaks happen constantly (Twitter, Google, Apple, etc.)


Mastodon has not implemented age‑verification and is decentralized.

Those of us who value the word of God should see how we are moving toward the fulfillment of the prophecy, where everyone must prove their identity with a mark in order to buy or sell.... The mark of the beast, in the right hand or in the forehead.