Discord has announced that it's rolling out age verification checks globally from March – and the decision has sparked fury from many privacy-conscious users.
I heard about for in the Uk and aussielands, because they are leading the way in subjugating the internet to ai, to id every account
Fwiw Australia’s law quite specifically says they can’t require ID for age verification, requires that if the user does choose to use ID it cannot be used for any other purposes.
Aside from ID, they’re allowed a variety of options for age detection. Most of them seem to have gone with a short of sentiment analysis type technique. They work out you’re over 16 based on the fact that your account is 10+ years old (and not many <6 year olds have accounts) or you’re talking about politics more than Bluey. That’s not collecting any data they didn’t already have.
Fwiw Australia’s law quite specifically says they can’t require ID for age verification, requires that if the user does choose to use ID it cannot be used for any other purposes.
Aside from ID, they’re allowed a variety of options for age detection. Most of them seem to have gone with a short of sentiment analysis type technique. They work out you’re over 16 based on the fact that your account is 10+ years old (and not many <6 year olds have accounts) or you’re talking about politics more than Bluey. That’s not collecting any data they didn’t already have.