Updated with a statement from Sen. Merkley, who proposed the amendment and was a part of the negotiation: "As I worked with other Senate negotiators to develop a compromise proposal governing TSA’s use of facial recognition, it became abundantly clear that the end goal for TSA is to make facial recognition mandatory for all American air travelers and that the current opt-out system will end."
#ISW, May 8 assessment: "Reports indicate that there is an available open-source tool that allows people to search by specific coordinates for Telegram users who have enabled a certain location-sharing setting."
But of course there is. The russian-engineering, roll-your-own-crypto, cryptocoin-shilling, encrypted-but-not-encrypted messaging app to have a zero-day exploited privacy flaw exposing users' location? I can't imagine where such failures would come from.
Age verification forces a choice between "freedom of expression by not accessing content" or "increased security risks that will arise from data breaches and phishing sites"
ORG warns that Ofcom (UK) proposals could create new oppportunities for fraudsters to scam people into providing identification and payment information.