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

SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I mean, fuck Spotify and all that, but this one is really the UK government’s doing.

And soon, this shit will come to every country. They’re all drafting laws to mandate real age verification for adult content. The UK is just the first to implement it.

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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I mean, fuck it. At this point we might as well put our passport numbers in the HTTP headers.

Coming to a pop up near you. If they even bother to ask any more.

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- SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I think there are going to be a whole lot of phishing and blackmail scams in the future, preying on the stupid computer illiterate masses putting in their personal information into fake “age verifiers” to access porn or other adult content.
  
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  - Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It’s a good thing it’s so easy to tell them from the “trustworthy” ones…
    
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Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Its not like every industrie can somehow lobby every consumer right away when someone wants to make a new law… oh wait they do…

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- SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Actually, I don’t think this is industry mandated. I don’t think it’s in the interest of tech and content companies to create more friction to access their services. This one seems to have more to do with the governments wanting to exert more control over online affairs, and of course, over its citizens.
  
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  - Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yea my point was if people stopped using the apps then the big players will lobby the governemt to revert shit like that. But i also think that long term all big players would love to normalize taking your picture to open their app. Every bit of information they can sell is a win for them.
    
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    SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Ah I see, misunderstood your point then.
    
    I guess that’s also why Google is going to use some kind of AI to determine whether or not a profile is underage. That way, existing adult users of their services are (most likely) not affected.
    
    In my opinion, draconian government overreach in matters of civil liberties is one of the few instances where we should be on the side of big tech companies.
    
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