Guardian Australia · Internet safety

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz

· By Taylor Lorenz
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Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon

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