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Twitch launches age verification requiring UK users to scan their face
Twitch has rolled out a new age verification system that will make UK users scan their faces in an effort to “keep our community safe.”
The Amazon-owned platform prohibits anyone under 13 from making an account, and while that won’t change, there’s now an extra step users will need to jump through to access content when they sign in. Reception to this change has certainly been mixed from UK residents, with people generally being frustrated by the barrier of having to do face ID every time they want to access an age-gated section of the internet. “To protect your privacy, Twitch and k-ID (a third-party vendor we partner with to verify your age) do not store your face scan video selfies.
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