In this episode of Impractical Privacy, Sudo explores the rising "gold rush" of digital age verification and how it serves as a "backdoor" for creating a global identity network. The show breaks down how uploading government IDs, using facial recognition AI, or linking credit cards transforms users into "data products" and creates permanent digital fingerprints that track movement across the web. Ultimately, Sudo argues that these "safety" measures are often corporate overreach and encourages listeners to use technical "self-defense" like GrapheneOS sandboxing and metadata scrubbing to remain "unreliable data" in the eyes of brokers.

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Intro: The Digital Bouncer Sudo contrasts the privacy of a physical bar's bouncer with 2026’s "digital doors," where "Walled Gardens" demand your papers just to look  ...