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.
Meanwhile, in the UK, new legislation requires me to upload my face and driver's license just to browse Reddit.
On a more serious note, implementing such a law without also providing a 0-knowledge authentication system ready to use by the government is just so unbelievably stupid (for multiple unrelated reasons).
r/ukguns r/cider r/sexualassault r/stopsmoking
Think of the children!
It isn't just gossip websites requiring this, and it isn't just gossip websites suffering breaches.
"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
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.
even the most savvy consumers slip up, or are in a hurry. it's impossible to make a perfect security decision every time
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.