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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

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Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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The social platform is testing age checks using facial scanning for access to sensitive content.

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Sounds like a creepy way for discord to take millions of photos of children and feed them to an AI.

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