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Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID (notthesolution.substack.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At some point we need to adopt some fucking privacy laws.

Yeah we absolutely had to ban TilTok because of privacy concerns but the idea of creating a law to protect our privacy is ridiculous beyond all reasoning. The stupidity of the United States government is absolute.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Agreed, but I’m not addressing TikTok specifically but rather policies similar to GDPR.