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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

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Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

The social platform is testing age checks using facial scanning for access to sensitive content.

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All it took for me is discord going down for a couple hours a couple of weeks ago. Now about half my friends went to it. All it will take is a small push or down time and they will need their fix somehow lol.

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