Although Britain’s GCHQ and the NSA seem to be in bed together on most things, invading the privacy of innocent users supposedly in the name of national security, every once in a while the UK does something that makes the US online surveillance machine seem like it is tamer in comparison; its online age check is one of those times.

The GCHQ has already expressed a Chinese-esque plan to create the Great UK firewall, but now the UK, which previously dabbled in porn blocking, wants online age verification services to ensure that people viewing porn are age 18 or over; the dangerous implementation of the system has outraged privacy advocates.

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