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Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 68 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I don't mind giving my date of birth to all the services I already pay for with credit card but face scanning? That's just creepy. Fuck off.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Date of birth (with some other details) is kind of a sensitive information in the right hands

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    given that governments are now starting to make certain protests illegal, definitely not as bad as having your face in a database and your behaviour being mapped for suspicious illegal activity like criticising genocide.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You're right and I'd go a bit further: It's none of their business what your age even is, they need to know only one bit for their legal duties, over or under age of majority.

    Basically what is really needed is a certificate of majority digitally signed by the government bound to some identifier, email address or full name. All this uploading faces or ID card scans is ridiculous.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Even using a credit card for something like Spotify is already giving out more information than is needed.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    How do you suggest people pay for Spotify?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    A normal modern bank card (with 2FA) through a payment provider which obfuscates everything besides the name on your bank account and your bank account number (this will also share the country of your bank if you are in a SEPA region). And since people younger than 18 can use that system, they cannot use that for verification.

    Plus, you won't be at risk of spending money you don't have, and it doesn't negatively impact your credit score like even having a credit card does in some countries.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    He's saying if you have a credit card to pay there's no need to verify (I think)

    Edit: nah I'm wrong, cheers

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I just hate credit cards since they are like the worst payment method unless you want to dig a financial hole for yourself

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Only if you’re bad with money. Nothing wrong with credit cards themselves, and most of them these days are credit/debit cards.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Besides that, credit cards (and chipless debit cards) are unsecure? That receiving credit cards payments costs more in terms of administration costs?

    That credit cards are a system designed for consumerism (you see this especially in the US) and that people who grew up with credit cards being the default/more common payment method are often worse with money?

    There is a reason why you can only own credit cards if you are an adult, but you can own chipped debit cards earlier.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    deleted by creator

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    fair point but given the direction US and UK are headed, something legal you do online can be illegal in a couple years with a face attached to that activity. What you mention is also bad (your face being in a face recognition database) but not as bad as that being attached to tons of behavioural data collected about you.

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