this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
399 points (99.3% liked)

Technology

73758 readers
3537 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
399
UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act (cybernews.com)
submitted 5 days ago by besselj@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Of course it's not legal. This is called identity theft.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Using the ID, sure. But what about providing the service?

[–] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I think it would fall under forgery which is definitely illegal and doesn't require you to use the ID.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Given that many online services currently asking for ID have a proven track record of massive data leaks I'd argue that demanding people upload photos of their ID is complicity in identity theft too.

[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

That would be a bit harder to make stick, but I would agree.