Hacker Newsroom for 24 June: Age Verification, F3 File Format, Flock Camera Warrants, Local GLM 5 2

Hacker Newsroom for 24 June recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through age verification, f3 file format, flock camera warrants, local glm 5 2.

1. Age Verification

The next story is a Pluralistic post arguing that what lawmakers call online age verification is really a mass-surveillance system, because proving age at internet scale means tying identity to browsing, expanding data collection, and setting up later moves like VPN bans. The post says the real way to protect kids is to stop the surveillance and recommendation machinery already shaping what they see, not to make privacy illegal in...