So, You’ve Hit An Age Gate. What Now?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/so-youve-hit-an-age-gate-what-now/

"Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification.

Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many harms they cause to speech, equity, privacy, and infosec. Their silver bullet? “Age estimation” technology that scans our faces, applies an algorithm, and guesses how old we are – before letting us access online content and opportunities to communicate with others. But when confronted with age estimation face scans, many people will refrain from accessing restricted websites, even when they have a legal right to use them. Why?

Because quite simply, age estimation face scans are creepy AF – and harmful. First, age estimation is inaccurate and discriminatory. Second, its underlying technology can be used to try to estimate our other demographics, like ethnicity and gender, as well as our names. Third, law enforcement wants to use its underlying technology to guess our emotions and honesty, which in the hands of jumpy officers is likely to endanger innocent people. Fourth, age estimation face scans create privacy and infosec threats for the people scanned. In short, government should be restraining this hazardous technology, not normalizing it through age verification mandates."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/face-scans-estimate-our-age-creepy-af-and-harmful

#USA #AgeVerification #AgeEstimation #Surveillance #Privacy #CyberSecurity #FaceScans

What is up with this country and wanting to violate everyone's privacy?

But don't let it be a Chinese company...

US Homeland Security will reportedly collect face scans of migrant kids

https://www.engadget.com/general/us-homeland-security-will-reportedly-collect-face-scans-of-migrant-kids-133042516.html?src=rss

#US #DHS #HomelandSecurity #FaceScans #Migrant #Children #Privacy #Surveillance #Tech

It is possible to detect numerous types of genetic disorders with 3D face scans. How do we make measurements of the face? What are the medical uses of this technology?

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/genetic-disorders/

@edutooters
@science
@scienceteachers
#Downsyndrome
#Williamssyndrome
#Autism #FragileX #SmithMagenis #JacobsenSyndrome #facescans #medicine #ethicalquestions

#mustread on #california #consumer #privacy act

"on its face, it was not a frontal attack on Silicon Valley.. the proposal took aim at the so-called 3rd-party market for #personaldata.
Under the proposed law, every California consumer could demand her digital dossier, showing what categories of #personalinformation the company had collected... not only name and address but also your #browsing history, your #fingerprints, your #facescans or your #location data."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html