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Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks (www.internetmatters.org)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51525347

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[–] 4 points 4 months ago

Plot twist: the feeling of outsmarting the system is incentive for kids to try. Big tech company gets biometric data from both successes and failures anyway. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

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