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Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check (www.techdirt.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 20 points 6 months ago

Every single time you mandate age verification, you are mandating the creation of a centralized database of extraordinarily sensitive personal information. Government IDs. Biometric facial data. The kind of data that, once breached, cannot be “changed” like a password. You get one face. You get one government ID number. When those leak—and they will leak—the damage is permanent.

Now do KYC verifications

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