For a There has been a new development with the uncertified class action Herndandez vs IGE. The Plaintiff alleges that IGE is gold-farming, spawn-camping, devaluing gold, spamming chat, and generally screwing up the experience for everyone else. Defendant As the fur continues to fly over Second Life's beta age-verification system, one of the aspects that has only really been lightly touched on is informed choice.

Before offering your identity documents and personal data to any third-party, there are things you need to know, otherwise you cannot be said to be capable of making an informed choice in the matter. So far, that information hasn't been comprehensively provided to you.

The provider for the verification service, we already know, is Aristotle/Integrity. According to their website the Integrity Direct verification service has verification data for 152 countries (out of a total of 194).

There doesn't seem to be information on which countries they don't have information for, but those missing 42 countries apparently account for 48.8% of the Earth's population, using Aristotle/Integrity's own figures.

You might reasonably point out that they say over 3.4 billion citizens. We reasonably point out that almost nobody says "over 3.4" if the number is 3.5 or more. Aristotle/Integrity repeatedly use "over 150 countries" when they mean 152. We feel it is reasonably to assume the true number of citizens in their database to be between 3.4 and 3.5 billion as, if they exceeded 3.5, they'd be saying "over 3.5 billion". You might also point out that many o