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[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yep. Meta's response with "basic publicly available information" is also really bad... Consider the parallel introduction of age verification with facial recognition... To protect children and so on...

The "public" data is not a problem... Now you could create a database with profile pictures and phone numbers of children worldwide... and Meta says no problem, because it's publicly accessible anyway...