UK’s Reddit Fine Forces Users Into Mass Biometric Surveillance
Reddit’s fix for protecting children’s data requires adults to hand their face and government ID to a third-party system that runs 269 verification checks per person.
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Reddit’s fix for protecting children’s data requires adults to hand their face and government ID to a third-party system that runs 269 verification checks per person.
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