Nudes for Access

In China, young people are apparently sending nude photos to companies in order to use their apps. The first time I read about it I thought it was an exaggeration, one of those viral misreads that gets worse each time someone shares it. But it’s real. And what gets to me isn’t that it happens, but that it doesn’t shock anyone. You know where this was going. Photos instead of personal data. Flesh instead of a password. Maybe the companies don’t even look at them. Maybe that’s not the point. The point is you’ll do it.