cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37698883
- Twitch now requires facial age verification to watch mature content in some regions using video selfies processed on your device.
- The system uses k-ID technology and targets gambling streams and other 18+ content to comply with new online safety laws.
- Users must scan their face to access restricted streams with many expressing privacy concerns about the new requirement.
If you’re handsome enough, your face was always the key to unlocking hot tub content!
Giga Chad has entered the chat
Using OBS’s virtual camera and sharing a n image or video of some older person is gonna become a thing…
If I were forced to I would consider doing that before allowing the webpage to see my actual face wtf.
I feel, at 50, if a site wants my face, the site does not want my traffic
People are already just pointing their phone camera at their monitor.
In the context of twitch I never thought of a phone… I guess I’m too much of a filthy gamer.
Can’t you just ai generate a face?
if you can make a rotatable 3D model of it…
maybe gmod will be more useful. They’ll have a massive dataset of dr.breen face scan trying to goon.
Still sound like a really bad idea for that list to exist at all.
We’ve had more than enough persecuting the bath tub users
we must stop this vicious anti-privacy movement
facial verification
And I’m out, don’t care if it’s twitch, or a government website.
Your biometric data is something you can’t change (not easily anyways), do not ever give it to anyone
Do not do this FFS.
Well the good news is that this will inevitably spawn an open-source tool that perfectly bypasses these “age verification” systems. They targeted gamers.
People’re already getting around shit with GMod.
People should spam this service with ai generated photos.
What happens if your face gets burned or mauled by a bear? You just get locked out of mature streams?
Not that I was making or watching those but the requirement itself is definitely something I want nothing to do with. Thanks for reminding me to delete my account, I’ve been meaning to do so for months now but always forgot to. One more thing off the list.
Every time a service rolls out one of these verification mechanisms, I really, REALLY hope they remain true to their word that age verification is only being done locally, and nothing is being sent out to a remote server… and they never change those rules in some privacy policy update.
k-ID is a company I haven’t personally heard of, but I know other companies like LinkedIn use companies such as Persona for Identity verification. Several months ago, I had a spat with LinkedIn as part of making an account where they tried to force me to scan my Government ID as well as a copy of my face to a third party company called Persona. The only difference is, while they claim the scans were only going to be stored temporarily for verification purposes and then deleted, the simple fact that they are storing anything is about as far from “On Device” as you can get. Needless to say, I did not scan my ID to LinkedIn, and I had to force them to delete the newly created account.
What I’m most particularly bothered by is how many of these verification services require a mobile phone and a mobile app to do.
