Yes Age verification for social media was recently enacted into law; but I think we should expect that good companies don't self opt into additional systems of surviellance until such time as they are legally compelled and at the very least have exhausted other options.
It stings harder as I had porkbun pegged as one of the companies standing up for users and pushing back against a surviellance web. Angry and frustrated.
Also what are some good alternatives to porkbun?
It appears that Veriff's data retention is set by their customers (in this case Porkbun). Porkbun's policy says that this information is deleted as soon as they have verified that you "pass." They aren't quite as explicit as saying that they require Veriff to delete it that quickly.
Unfortunately there's a giant loophole in Veriff's policies (emphasis mine):
(5) Fifth, we store Personal Data only for as long as the retention of data is required by law, a contract *or is necessary for the provision or development of our Services or required for protecting us against legal claims.* At the end of the retention period, we shall permanently erase the Personal Data or anonymize it."or anonymize it" means they would never opt to delete it and never will. Theres zero financial benefit to them deleting it other than honoring the customers privacy which they have clearly calculated is not profitable for them. Here's hoping this trend massively backfires across industries.
By all means move to a different registrar, but deliberate honestly. They are not requiring ID/face scans for the same reason Discord and Roblox are, as your framing suggests.
They’re asking for IDs as an anti-fraud measure, not an age check.
Legislation is one thing, this is a bad faith move, just dressed up as normal business. It's not.
The problem is they hold faces+IDs indefinitely and the ones I needed have breach issues along with indicators of top of the line 2005 era security practices.
So for me, its less about the KYC and more about their inability to KYC responsibly.