Comment by AnthonyMouse
3 days ago
> But it doesn't solve other problems, such as predators accessing children's spaces.
Neither do ID requirements. If you're purposely allowing in kids then you're allowing in everyone, because kids generally don't have ID.
Sure, but other forms of age verification requirements can, in principle, solve this (at the massive cost of many other privacy and compliance issues, as the article rightly points out). For example, periodic facial recognition-based age estimation can theoretically allow only kids' accounts to a certain space.
At which point you're still letting in every pedo who has a kid living with them or can grab one at a local school, and the child trafficking networks that by their nature have access to children or to cybercriminals who know how to fool the check with a fake camera, i.e. the worst of the worst.
Meanwhile you exclude the parent who is separated from their spouse and wants to check up on where their kid is hanging out when the kid is living with the other parent, and the investigative journalist who doesn't have a young kid or their kid is 16 but the detection system guesses they're 26.
And that's on top of having the lowest bidder building a biometrics database of children.