My main thing is I imagine there’d be some legality concerns about law enforcement, banks and Microsoft all sharing data like that. Also I imagine the government records are probably kept with older hardware and software.
Looks like before they even initiated it they required registered offenders to register email addresses and online screen names. They banned 3500 accounts at that time.
I would imagine in the time since people are stingier about giving all of their screen names.
My main thing is I imagine there’d be some legality concerns about law enforcement, banks and Microsoft all sharing data like that. Also I imagine the government records are probably kept with older hardware and software.
Instead of just speculating more I found an article from the time https://techli.com/sex-offenders-banned-gaming/3714/
Looks like before they even initiated it they required registered offenders to register email addresses and online screen names. They banned 3500 accounts at that time.
I would imagine in the time since people are stingier about giving all of their screen names.