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Reddit is implementing mandatory age verification across its platform. Users are raising privacy concerns about how personal identification data will be collected, stored, and potentially shared.
Reddit is implementing mandatory age verification across its platform. Users are raising privacy concerns about how personal identification data will be collected, stored, and potentially shared. The requirement will force users to submit identity information to use the site.
Age verification systems require identification—either documents or payment methods that reveal identity. Reddit will now have personal data tied to usernames in ways it didn't before. Users are right to be concerned: the data collected can be breached, sold, or subpoenaed. The privacy cost is real, and the justification (age verification) doesn't explain why identity data can't be verified without storing it.
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