Age Verification: What’s sold as “online safety” means surveillance via id checks or face scans.

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Age Verification: What’s sold as “online safety” means surveillance via id checks or face scans.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting vpns and app stores behind age verification.

https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymityOpen link View original on sh.itjust.works

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aussie.zone

The no shit thingy everyone always warned about... I don't want to sound like a grade A moron, but I'm starting to think its all intentional

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lemmy.today

Secret social scores by palantir and like companies. To decide whether you get loans, which jobs, what prices you pay, what results you are shown on social media. With ai making those half baked assumptions, no way to challenge it, no way to know what they are using.