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It will probably be impossible to tell who has sincere concerns about model safety and privacy, and who is using the issue to cover something entirely of self-interest.
The most "correct" attitude over the past couple of weeks has been to applaud these concerns, but a few people have pointed out that - possibly the majority and certainly a large number of - content providers/producers have been giving out this information for years. Does anyone know of any models who have been threatened or violated as a result?
A response to that question could reasonably be that we don't want to risk even one will be. But then why has it taken a legal requirement to provide satisfactory proof of identity and age, for public expressions of this concern to appear? More obviously, to comply with the law and keep the model safe, why not simply use a document - such as a passport - which does not include address details?
A few board warriors have claimed they could track someone down with just a name and birthdate. It can be done, but any who can do that, could have just as easily have used the information from an obfuscated driver license or social security card to the same end. And on that basis the vast majority of content sets ever sold put the models at risk. Always assuming the documents were genuine of course...
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