What they're not telling you: Considering that many countries are trying to create social media regulations for those under 16 and are experiencing hacking at the wrong time, I think most State government have forgotten how private or important data is get hacked in Indonesia.
# THE TAKE: Age verification-rules-never-reflect-on-hac.html" title="Why do most countries that implement "Age Verification" rules never reflect on hacking in Indonesia?" style="color:#1a1a1a;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-style:dotted;font-weight:500;">Verification Theater and the Indonesia Blind Spot Most governments implementing age gates are practicing security theater—demanding centralized ID databases while ignoring Indonesia's 2021 Dukcapil breach, which exposed 279 million citizens' biometric records. That's your roadmap for what happens when you concentrate identity verification infrastructure. The contradiction is architectural: legislators mandate age verification to "protect minors," then architect systems that create honeypots for actual harm. Indonesia didn't fail because enforcement was weak. It failed because the infrastructure existed. Yet Australia, the UK, and EU member states are *accelerating* toward similar centralized models—KYC requirements, facial recognition, linked government databases. None mention Indonesia. None conduct adversarial testing. This isn't incompetence. It's institutional amnesia by design. A breach that exposes verification infrastructure doesn't stop regulation—it justifies *more* regulation, more integration, more data concentration. The cycle continues because nobody's accountable when the hack happens somewhere else first.
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