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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told (www.bbc.com)

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by Ste41th@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This was bound to happen, and it’s ridiculous

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[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Google and Microsoft have to be dragged kicking and squealing into proper policy that actually damages their business models.

They have been completely silent on these age verification checks, in Aus this is being implemented by an un-elected government official whose career was largely working for Microsoft for the past 20 years.

This is all about data mining.