The United Kingdom has long been trying to introduce age verification laws for pornography sites. A system using passports, credit cards, and other means was supposed to...
The government says selfies for AI verification are to “protect” children from such content but in reality we know it’s all to create a database with biometric hashes of everyone and create the long-awaited dystopia of 24/7 mass surveillance.
The government that completes the task first comes out ahead, and it seems that China is winning the dispute
My first thought when reading this was “what if the same person takes different pictures for a bunch of their friends, how would that be prevented”
And then the immediate, obvious answer was “well obviously the porn sites would store the face identity of the people who are logging in and browsing.”
The government says selfies for AI verification are to “protect” children from such content but in reality we know it’s all to create a database with biometric hashes of everyone and create the long-awaited dystopia of 24/7 mass surveillance. The government that completes the task first comes out ahead, and it seems that China is winning the dispute
My first thought when reading this was “what if the same person takes different pictures for a bunch of their friends, how would that be prevented”
And then the immediate, obvious answer was “well obviously the porn sites would store the face identity of the people who are logging in and browsing.”
So… Yeah.
And since this is the UK we’re talking about, you know they’re gonna use that data to track who’s trans and persecute them