We're entering a world where hacking facial recognition is going to be a big thing. People are going to start wearing masks in public because of ICE, and to avoid repercussions for going to protests, and that's going to normalize a slippery slope. We're going to end up all Anonymous.
I wonder how it might affect people with medical conditions that make their faces look unusual. If the law only applies to pornography, most people in that situation might not want to go talk to a journalist about it.
thisakes the news because the man has a bit of celebrity to draw on, but there will be many people going through countless versions of bieng rejected, and then bieng flat out refused ANY help trying to comply with the utterly flawed premise built on half assed technology, that has been rushed through legislation in order to make dedperate political powers feel like they are in controll.
as the british say in a droll fashion, fuck off.
While I can imagine this is very frustrating, I think we can definitely see "facial accessories" becoming more mainstream as ways to evade "unsolicited surveillance".
Like... imagine someone invents glasses with an outward looking camera that can stream all their surroundings without proper opt-in consent (where this is required).
Gary's Mod (a videogame that uses the Half Life 2 engine) is being used to bypass these live face checkers [0]. It's primitive, but I can see in the future full-on AI driven face generation doing this job. It'll basically become a arms race between the checking technology and the fake face generation.
This was never necessary - Yoti (which I think is being used in this case) has a tool that allows you to validate your identity to them, and then use that to validate only that you're over 18 to third parties. Yivi (a Dutch non-profit) even has an open source version, and it works really well.
I have no clue why these "facial age estimation" technologies are being pushed in place of that. They're much worse in terms of privacy and accuracy, and they're easier to trick if you want to bypass them.
Facial recognition, biometrics and ID verification are all flawed systems, based on a government or country that is running behind in digitization. In other countries, government operated digital identity management systems are integrated already [0], and banks provide age verification systems that protect your identity and don't involve uploading your ID or mugshot to one of many 3rd parties [1]. It's basically like an online payment, but instead of "I confirm this has been paid" it's a "I confirm this user is 18+" signal.
I don't understand why these new age check systems are years behind on technological reality.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 72.8 ms ] threadI swear, the quality of some journalism is so shameless.
Perhaps we'll see more people sporting this look in the future.
Falsehoods lawmakers believe about faces.
[0] https://www.flexposer.com/
I have no clue why these "facial age estimation" technologies are being pushed in place of that. They're much worse in terms of privacy and accuracy, and they're easier to trick if you want to bypass them.
It is the vendor supplying the website he is visiting that told him to do that.
I don't understand why these new age check systems are years behind on technological reality.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiD
[1] https://www.idin.nl/en/