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by yetanother12345 892 days ago
Please note: Ireland

   This is the national internet regulator proposing that it would require that everyone, adult and children alike, would upload their state ID and live selfies, to porn sites to have biometric processing of their facial images performed. Resulting, amongst other things, in an effective register of porn preferences for adults and a collection of selfies of children kept by the porn sites for six years[0]
So, all these PII data and sensitive data points[1] would be hosted on American-owned datacentres, which Ireland is densely populated with?

Anyone see something slightly worrying here? Anyone? Just asking rhetorically.

[0] TFA

[1] Not only porn sites, but any site which allows you to post a video (TFA)