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More nodding dogs green-light terrible UK.gov pr0n age verification plans

anthonyhegedus Silver badge

Scammers will have a field day. The day after Pr0nDay, when some website or other is hacked, they'll be able to send out spam "we got your name, password, a photo of your passport and a list of pornsites you've been to".

This is just more personal and potentially dangerous information if it were to get into the wrong hands, which it will.

Then there's the risk of websites which say "download this utility to get around the porn-block". The list goes on. What the government is doing is just the wrong solution to the wrong problem.

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