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spwa4yesterday at 12:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

The real problem for privacy is that governments are increasingly outsourcing the verification of identity and bot protection to private companies.


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aboardRat4yesterday at 4:01 PM

And what do you expect instead? To get a Russian gosuslugi ID, you also need to bind your phone and ID number.

And of course their database is leaked in real time.

carlosjobimyesterday at 12:37 PM

Outsourcing? Governments have never been involved in bot protection or online identity verification for anything else than their own websites.

It's like saying that the government has outsourced burger making to McDonalds.

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