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QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

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

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

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QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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Spotify is the latest app to bring in age verification
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    I don’t mind giving my date of birth to all the services I already pay for with credit card but face scanning? That’s just creepy. Fuck off.

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      Even using a credit card for something like Spotify is already giving out more information than is needed.

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        fair point but given the direction US and UK are headed, something legal you do online can be illegal in a couple years with a face attached to that activity. What you mention is also bad (your face being in a face recognition database) but not as bad as that being attached to tons of behavioural data collected about you.

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        There’s a wide gap between “travelling to another country” and “listening to music.”

        I’m not trying to go on holiday to Spotify

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      It is 1970-01-01 like me, no?

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        April 20th, 1969? Anyone?

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