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.
Chat Control is the EU’s Trojan horse for mass surveillance: “voluntary” scanning, client-side detection, age verification and biometric IDs. How child protection becomes a pretext to erode privacy, anonymity and end-to-end encrypted communication.
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