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Eugh: Discord is scanning users' faces and IDs in Australia and the UK to 'experiment' with age verification features
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While some might call this a chilling advancement of the global surveillance apparatus, Discord says these new "features" are "an experiment" that only applies to users in the United Kingdom and Australia, which recently passed laws requiring more rigorous age verification on platforms that might expose children to harmful content. Recent years have seen the UK and Australia join a trend of governments adopting stricter age verification requirements for web platforms with the intent of protecting children from harmful content. To soothe the fears of anyone who might be wondering what "disruption" entails when it involves processing your facial geometry, Veratad provides a reassuring image of a computer spraying fluorescent dots all over a guy's face like it's calculating a targeting solution for its onboard ordnance package.
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