"Every single time you mandate #ageverification, 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."

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Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitiv…

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