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Half of US States Now Demand Your ID Online

Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net) · 4 months ago

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Government ID to read a webpage is now the law in more than half of US states, and the Supreme Court just cleared the way. The part nobody mentions: every mandate builds a database that gets breached. Full article and sources at vp.net/blog or copy and paste: https://s.vp.net/O2d2o #Shorts #privacy #ageverification #surveillance #digitalrights

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