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Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn (www.404media.co)
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As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.

Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.

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[–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

While true, a government IDP would still be able to track what sites you're using your tokens at, which is not great.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Agreed, but you'd think they would prefer that. The way it is now, they have no way of knowing which platforms have your government IDs.

    Though, let's be real, all they need to do is pay a data broker for the tracking data that's already being collected everywhere.

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