Britain’s most tattooed man says new UK age checks block him from p*rn sites as facial recognition mistakes his tattoos for a mask, calling the tech discriminatory.
  • deaf_fish@midwest.socialBannedEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I like the rest of your points, but moving verification off to a different private companies is not solving anything. Why would a second company not sell your data or make it easy to steal?

    Edit: Ah, my bad, my brain erroneously conflated paying people with private companies.

    • redwattlebird @lemmings.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Why privatise though? Or if you do privatise, pass legislation to make data trading illegal unless you pay the person whose data is bring traded or make it outright illegal. Or figure out a way to make the data completely useless. Perhaps banning advertising and marketing or limiting what they can do. So many possibilities for a better future than this.

      • deaf_fish@midwest.socialBannedEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Ah, my bad, my brain erroneously conflated paying people with private companies. Thanks for catching me on that. I am fine with it being done in the public center as long as there isn’t a more anonymous way of age verification. There may be a public private key cryptography thing we could use instead. I don’t know if this has been explored yet.