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Roblox begins asking tens of millions of children to verify their age with a selfie
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Yeah they did the 30s/40s equivalent, but I don't think they still have the functional capacity to work at that scale.
they probably do, just that we don't get to hear about it until a couple of years have passed.
No like i don't think they're still competent enough. Morally, sure, thry could be that evil.
If, say, Denver needed that database, they'd do it before the check cleared.
I dont think they could do it for a large country.
They would want to, they would take the contract, ans it would hire so many subcontractors cut so many corners the end product would be unrecognizable.
i mean
Edit: sorry, reuters seems to be stripping stuff off of the link. the quote i linked to is
It takes all of them plus the Zionist state, for something smaller than California.
fair enough. i just know ibm is a big actor with many european governments as well, more so than the others. probably by virtue of having been around a lot longer.
And certain preexisting relationships.