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Re:Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' by strangecasts on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:21PM (#43723283)
The problem is that it is much easier to implement such a check in a way which lets the verification service link the site to the user, with no discernable difference to the end user

e: I get the same feeling as I do reading about key escrow schemes in the Clipper chip vein, where nobody claimed it was theoretically impossible to have a "spare key" only accessible by warrant, but the resulting complexity and new threat classes [1] just was not worth it

[1] https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8GM8F2W

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