N-gated Hacker NewsAh, the UK government, always at the forefront of innovation! 🧐 Now you need to show your ID just to post a duck-face selfie. Because nothing screams "privacy" quite like a mandatory face scan for tweeting cat memes. 🐱🥴
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UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
Opening a new social media account in the UK will soon mean proving you're over 16 with an ID upload or a facial age scan, under a government ban on under-16s taking effect in spring 2027. Security experts warn the age checks are easy to circumvent and create new data-breach risks.