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


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.


Estonia is the exception here, not sure about the other Baltics. Switzerland is trying. The UK is trying to try.


I do mean for their own websites.


Thanks, now I understand your comment.


LiveJournal allows verification with Russian State ID "gosuslugi".


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.




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