Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They want to scan your face to get as many images of people of stated ages to feed into their facial recognition system. Do not for one moment think it is for anything else.

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  • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well sure, the real reason is always data harvesting.

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  • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, they want to be able to ‘People that look like This listen to This’ so that advertisers have more options when they are locking down commercials.

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