Alt: a man in a green suit and tie is surrounded by money

ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a shirt and tie is dancing

Alt: Phineas And Ferb: Agent P's Stealthy Turn A teal platypus runs on a red floor in front of a green background. He is wearing a detective hat. He stops, turns and looks over his shoulder at the camera.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...