rom June 2026, PlayStation Network requires age verification to access chat and online features. Sony chose Yoti — a company fined for GDPR violations and documented by independent researchers as a surveillance infrastructure disguised as an age gate.
Persona’s source code — accidentally exposed on a federal server — revealed 269 distinct checks behind every selfie uploaded to Reddit, OpenAI, Discord. Behind the age verification screen sits an architecture almost no one chose and no legislature has discussed as such.
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