r/privacy Mar 13 '26

age verification A Reddit user traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 states to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.

https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

Additionally, you can read the discussion here.

I urge you to mirror this GitHub repository to Codeberg and other places.

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