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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026

Then there's the "age verification" laws proliferating all around the world. Remember, there's no such thing as "age verification," there's only "spying on everyone, all the time, to figure out who the kids are": pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/d...

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Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026

Age verification requires multiple entities to assemble vast corpuses of the kinds of sensitive identification papers that would allow identity thieves to destroy the finances and lives of everyone in the country, and (as foretold) every time it's tried, these files leak.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026

Someday, this will lead to doxing whole *countries*: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... Age verification is the latest and worst stage in governments' fraught relationship with private sector data-collection.

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Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

Discord to block adult content unless users verify ages with selfies or IDs.

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