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Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check
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Loyal Moses has been on about this. Apparently the bills require third party cloud storage of the information in addition to an online requirement (for logging in???), and continuous telemetry to in use apps on the desktop environment.