UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
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UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
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Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#2It's increasingly North Korean here, there is talk of mandatory bad haircuts late 2027 ...
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#3Time to build your own platforms I guess.
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#4The moment this comes to America im deploying nanogram.
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#5For all the noise about "EU consumer protections" this certainly seems quite the opposite.
So, to be clear, I have to tiptoe around cookies but eu-users will simultaneously do this so they can share pictures of their ...
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#6For all the noise about "EU consumer protections" this certainly seems quite the opposite. So, to be clear, I have to tiptoe around cookies but eu-users will simultaneously do this so they can share pictures of their ...
The UK left the EU years ago.
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#7The moment this comes to America im deploying nanogram. https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/nanogram-pi
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Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#8Article is doing a lot of supposing:
"To enforce it, platforms must age-check their users. In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they're over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial age scan."
> likely
It could, of course, use a double-anonymous system like the French one.
Probably not, but I'd rather that they didn't state their guess as fact in the title.
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#9Of course, it'll be possible to circumvent this with a VPN or a proxy. So what this will achieve is it will reduce the number of British muggles on social media, thus bringing us a bit closer to the Good Old Days when only nerds were online. I'm fine with this.
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Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#10Time to build your own platforms I guess.
You mean countries?