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Re:UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social ... by munksbeer on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:47PM (#48560912)
What happens when teens lives start getting properly ruined because they end up on the dark web or other sites? What about when the first teen commits suicide because they were lured into a honeypot vpn and their data used to blackmail?

Will you still be claiming that this is "good enough"?

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Re:UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social ... by iamnothere on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:42PM (#48563275)
He doesn’t really care about that, he just wants his life to be a little easier (and to track what the hoi polloi are up to by forcing them to cough up their IDs)
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