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I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills (www.reddit.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by ikidd@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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God, I hate posting a Reddit comment, but this is huge. Every claim is sourced (I have not verified personally).

Edit: Well, Reddit does what reddit does, it's been removed. Here is a github link: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/985257

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[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Inside scoop having talked to the company meta uses. Since they use face identification to check age, my belief is that it burdens them with biometric data that the federal government wants rights to. That puts them in a precarious situation if they don't want to share said data, or can't make enough off it for the risk, just like problem Discord had. Much safer to have ad-focused data.