Roblox is starting to roll out the mandatory age checks that will require all of its users to submit an ID or scan their face in order to access the platform's chat features.
personally i think a big part of the problem is that real-name identification for things that shouldn’t need it is just sort of accepted, rather than being criticised as the massive invasion of privacy that it is. whether it includes children or not is a side note in my mind.
well, we’re here. but the companies and governments pushing this are already looking at possible next steps, like building systems where your real identity is used everywhere.
Ask for verification only to enable chat. So at least in theory it’s only adults.
Or, you know; don’t.
i mean, to matter which way you go you’ll have created a database of people’s real identities. which is a problem.
Yeah but at least it wouldn’t be mostly children.
did you bypass verification prompts as a child? so will they.
Yes, and Ana von mcfakenamesdottir the third, born jan1 1900 will be in the database forever.
hah.
personally i think a big part of the problem is that real-name identification for things that shouldn’t need it is just sort of accepted, rather than being criticised as the massive invasion of privacy that it is. whether it includes children or not is a side note in my mind.
Oh absolutely, and we should go back to 1990s anonymity
But here we are. Everything has an endoscope.
well, we’re here. but the companies and governments pushing this are already looking at possible next steps, like building systems where your real identity is used everywhere.
And part of what I want is for children to be excluded. To not be tracked. It’s a good wedge that turns their rhetoric against them.