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There are commercial services to verify email address age: https://www.ipqualityscore.com/email-age-checker https://www.ipqualityscore.com/email-age-checker T
by londons_explore 2y ago
There are commercial services to verify email address age: https://www.ipqualityscore.com/email-age-checker https://www.ipqualityscore.com/email-age-checker
They generally look at data leaks and partner with big companies to see when that email address first signed up to any online service.
- account42 2y agoThat doesn't seem remotely compatible with modern privacy laws like the GDPR. And it certainly ads even more false negatives of people locked out because they didn't have their email leaked long enough ago.
- londons_explore 2y agoGDPR has a massive carve-out for fraud prevention...
- account42 2y agoWhich doesn't include collecting information about your email and then handing it off to random third parties just because they want to use it for that.