This increasing interest in biometric data, not just from “X”, is concerning to say the least

I feel like this link is a scam itself lol

So that’s about 2.95M USD or 2.7M EUR, I wouldn’t go to prison for 18 years for that amount of money that’s for sure.

Maybe his 4D chess move is trying to push everyone to federated apps, what a great guy!

He’s probably having a fit over everyone blocking him from their feeds

What is with everyone’s obsession, government or company, to moderate the web. It’s seriously depressing and exhausting.

I haven’t found any info on such regulation existing

In Belgium, the RRN (SSN) is considered confidential data and its use is restricted to specific purposes, typically related to administrative, legal, or public interest matters. To ask for RRN, you’d need authorization and it’s highly unlikely you’d get it just to validate someone’s social media account.

I can differentiate situations depending on context

I think you’re missing context though. It wasn’t addressed in the video.

It’s always been that way lol

Do bad thing, say you handled bad thing wrongly, hope people forget bad thing.