Support NeoGAF

[cormack12]

Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act

Bluesky is adding age verification to its platform in the UK as part of efforts to comply with the country's Online Safety Act. In an update on Thursday, the platform says it will let users verify their age by scanning their face, uploading an ID, or entering a payment card.

Bluesky will perform age verification through Kid Web Services (KWS), an Epic Games-owned tool that developers can use to implement aforge verification and parental controls on their platforms. If users don't want to verify their age, or if they're under 18, they will still be able to have an account with certain features limited. Bluesky will block "adult-appropriate content" and turn off certain features, such as direct messaging.

 

[Fake]

Looks very strange... parents should do this job alone. 'by scanning their face, uploading an ID, or entering a payment card.'. All those collectiong epic game tools is kinda suspicious.

 

[bitbydeath]

Seems a bit risky giving away your sensitive personal information to such websites, no?

Doesn't sound like something that should be legal.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Seems a bit risky giving away your sensitive personal information to such websites, no?

Doesn't sound like something that should be legal.

Of course, youtube is asking for age verification to watch mature videos for several years now (here in Europe). They can go fuck themselves, I'm not going to send a scan of my ID to an evil corp, with an additional risk of it getting leaked in the future.

In this case there are few other ways, but the risks are the same - infrastructure can get hacked and you don't know who and when may process your personal information and track what you're doing.

 

[SJRB]

Jus casually upload pics of your face, your ID or payment card to this random company just so you can send direct messages on a social media platform, why not

 

[Z O N E]

All of this because parents didn't want to monitor their children's online activity and/or enable parental controls. They would blame everyone except themselves for getting their kid a $$$ phone and letting them run rampart online.

 

[Hari Seldon]

All this will do is drive the tech savy teens to the non-corporate web, if they weren't there already.

 

[YCoCg]

Porn sites like XHamster and such have been showing this warning too, ....or so I've heard.

 

[Hookshot]

Labour's fascination with making us all give over our ID's is so odd. It's not going to stop crimes, just bother the masses.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

BlueSky?

 

[adamsapple]

I haven't done one of these for porn, I'm not about to do it for Bsky.

 

[violence]

"Hey dad, can I have a blue sky account?"

..…

 

[Dirk Benedict]

OhNo!Anyway.gif

 

[Banjo64]

Jus casually upload pics of your face, your ID or payment card to this random company just so you can send direct messages on a social media platform, why not

It's not a random company it's an Epic Games company and Epic are in bed with Tencent. What could go wrong?

 

[sono]

a friend told me xhamster is doing the same

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

They need to verify when actual minors register, so they get a marketing boost in certain social circles.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Some delivery apps require verification

 

[kruis]

Labour's fascination with making us all give over our ID's is so odd. It's not going to stop crimes, just bother the masses.

The point was never to stop crime ... it's the surveillance state grabbing more and more of your personal data "for your protection".