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.
maybe. when china did it with their law about children not using their phones after curfew, they handled it by building a face database of everyone except children, then matching against that.
also a very useful way to mask your true reason if your true reason is “i want to build a database of people”. four horsemen of the internet type shit.
Yes but I don’t think anyone but the ccp is capable of actually doing that competently at the scale of a large country. Maybe ten years ago google might’ve had a shot.
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.
maybe. when china did it with their law about children not using their phones after curfew, they handled it by building a face database of everyone except children, then matching against that.
Still fucking awful, but more work and keeps kids a little safer than the opposite
also a very useful way to mask your true reason if your true reason is “i want to build a database of people”. four horsemen of the internet type shit.
Yes but I don’t think anyone but the ccp is capable of actually doing that competently at the scale of a large country. Maybe ten years ago google might’ve had a shot.
doing it incompetently is arguably worse, because that involves storing way too much info and sharing it too freely.