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Age verification for R-rated games and websites raises privacy concerns (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 5 days ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 90 points 4 days ago (3 children)

When did it become the responsibility of technology to parent a child?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Apparently soon after it became the neglected responsibility of adults to parent billionaires.

[–] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 4 days ago

When they decided "protect the kids" was a good enough excuse to ramp up the surveillance state.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 55 points 4 days ago (2 children)

But it's not raising privacy concerns for underage children having to upload personal photos to god knows where?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 43 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It isn't like creepy rightwing ultrawealthy men with shadowy connections to pedophiles and other criminals own those companies they are uploading the photos to!

checks notes

Oh wait...

[–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago

god knows where?

Antichrist knows where.

[–] BitsAndBites@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Just as I got another letter in the mail today from some unknown company about how all my info has been exposed in yet another data breech.

[–] Resist@lemmy.org 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just what the dying internet really needs more data harvesting behind smoke and mirrors

[–] iKill101@lemmy.bleh.au 4 points 4 days ago

Hell yeah, mate! Especially when it's Government mandated data harvesting!

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

Concerns!! WHY AREN'T YOU THINKING OF CHILDREN? What's wrong, don't you like thinking of children?
What we need is more people in power thinking of children!!!

Oh, wait...

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Whatever hurdles apply to 18+ media should also apply to online gambling and alcohol stores.

It won't apply consistently because SportsBet are behind this entire operation.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Sounds like they should be afraid of the... piracy concerns! ☠️ 🚢

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Oh really?