Sounds like an excuse to move my community elsewhere!
Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification
Submitted 1 month ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.zip
https://gizmodo.com/discord-begins-testing-facial-scans-for-age-verification-2000590188
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JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
I already don’t use Discord too much, and if they push this, I’m done with it completely.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
God, I don’t wanna look like a crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist to my friends, but I hope one day they magically get concerned or ask me for privacy respecting alternative services. I haven’t really had the chance to actually test how good Revolt, Matrix, and SimpleX are, but all of them would be worth trying a million times more than Discord.
I wish we would use Signal instead. But unfortunately I have to resign myself to using Discord and GroupMe for school and friends. At least they don’t hate me for not using Insta, although some randos do seem to be annoyed by my reluctance to use it on first meet.
It’s just so hard trying not to isolate myself from friends. I get that the alternatives aren’t always great (might lack video calls, easy bot management, sever costs, shitty UX and onboarding, etc.) but we gotta at least give them a try…
saltesc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s Facebook Messenger for me. It’s impossible to get everyone to shift. Many of us have had Signal for years.
KiwiTB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Time to look into matrix.org
JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
There are a few qualifiers here. It’s for some users in UK and Australia trying to access sensitive content. And it sounds like it’s reaction to laws against youth under 16 accessing social media. In Australia, anyway. So the scope is currently fairly limited.
Should we be worried that this will pave the road for larger privacy abuses? Yes, of course we should. That scenario feels likely, in my opinion.
Is this enough to convince my friends to use a different platform? Not yet.
mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Disable camera access to the app/binary
JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
They could just deny access without verification. But thinking more broadly there’ll certainly be ways to fool the system. But, shouldn’t have to in the first place.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Gonna draw a face on my ass and tell Discord that’s what I actually look like.
Wahots@pawb.social 1 month ago
Send them a pic of your sona
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
They’d force me to work in their IT department if I did that
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I hopped back into VRChat yesterday and i found out it has introduced age verification with ID. If people start requiring that for every fun room i’m cooked.
Dojan@pawb.social 1 month ago
There’s Resonite. And Matrix.
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Seems cool. I’m also following the development of V-Sekai(since it uses Godot which i personally like).
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 month ago
Discord can scan deez nuts
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 month ago
facial recognition scans require a realtime video feed of you turning your head each way… a fake photo is not going to suffice
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
So, some modeling clay and an airbrush then?
Sunshine@piefed.social 1 month ago
This is where Authoritarianism begins.
RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If they ask me to do that I’m gone
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Bye!