On Meta, it will be through Yoti’s facial assurance check, which requires users to take a video selfie to assess their age.
Can I send a video of the hair on my cock instead?
How about they look at my account creation date and then eat the entirety of my arse
How about I prove I’m old by not taking a selfie.
What do you lot use for group chats? For some reason my social circle decided facebook messenger is the goto. This could be the chance to get them off it. We’ve tried to setup a signal chat in the past, and there is some interest, but the lack of chat history deters new users. I don’t think we need that level of encryption going on.
We all know that nearly all of us will be ping’d for verification. That’ll let em get our ID and add another data point. I say they’re throthing at the upcoming data rush.
I honestly doubt it. They’ve got very little to gain from it, and huge risk to reputation if they do it and then get hacked.
They don’t care about reputation in any way. It’ll be a small fine of a few million and they’ll rub their hands for that cheap data.
Yeah, just look at Discord. Not only harvesting data, by sharing it with “trusted partners” I was told the Esafety commissioner can bring legal action to find companies up to $850k per offence for improperly storing Australian citizens data, but I haven’t heard anything about hundreds of millions in fines against Discord yet.
Ugh, we are in the “find out” stage?
How is this even constitutional? You don’t protect your minors?
So the good news is that, despite the legislation saying it should apply to all social media sites, the actual regulation seems to only be being applied to certain designated platforms. Which is actually an excellent approach.
As for how it will work. Still nobody has been very clear. It’s likely companies will use profiling to estimate users’ age, and many people will simply not need to do anything to keep using it. If you do get detected as underage, facial recognition or uploading photo ID seems likely to be the only option.
Meta will use facial recognition provided by “Yoti” or photo ID.
Tiktok said it would have “a simple appeals process”. No further detail.
Google has not given any indication as to whether it will even comply with the ban, but has threatened legal action to determine if it is even lawful.
Snap and Kick say they will comply, but have not yet shared any details about how.
X and Reddit have not given any comment.
All other platforms are, as yet, exempt.
It’s likely companies will use profiling to estimate users’ age, and many people will simply not need to do anything to keep using it
I wonder if I can preemptively add some activity to my profile to feign this, like add ‘married’ as a status and subscribe to insurance companies.
I’m just hoping the fact that my account is, like…15(?) years old will be a pretty clear sign that I’m over 16.
They’ve been really unclear and flip flopping but YouTube has already demanded I age verify.
