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Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 days ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The group surveyed over 1,000 UK children and their parents, and while it did report some positive effects from changes made under the OSA, many children saw age verification as an easy-to-bypass hurdle rather than something that kept them genuinely safe.

A full 46 percent of children even said that age checks were easy to bypass, while just 17 percent said that they were difficult to fool. The methods kids use to fool age gates vary, but most are pretty simple: There's the classic use of a video game character to fool video selfie systems, while in other instances, children reported just entering a fake birthday or using someone else's ID card when that was required.

Does anyone find this surprising ?Ask anyone who know how the internet works and most will say this won't work

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Exactly. It's not age verification, it's 1984-esque mass surveillance.

We need to blanket ban online age verification.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

The thing is that the politicians pushing for it genuinely want the 1984-esque mass surveillance. And it's not even some sort of mustache twiddling cartoonish evil, these are the sorts of people that genuinely believe if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to hide. That police should be able to get into any lock and read any message. That police are inherently good and won't ever misuse those powers once they have them. They're really just that naive.

The frustrating thing is that many of these people's voters, at least in the US, have always believed the Democrats are tracking them and just generally being evil while in power, and totally oblivious to the amount of control they offer up the government willingly. The idea that their beliefs might be persecuted is lost on them, despite not even that long ago saying they were.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

It's a really weird law because all it's really doing is collecting data on the most stupid part of society, the ones that actually submit their real details. They are by definition those that are least worth surveilling.