Porn filters can use facial screening technology to verify age

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5 points·nreece··9 comments

Yeah, people are going to allow a PORN site to scan their face. Right...

Interesting technology, silliest application I've heard in a while.

So how does this work? A user takes a photo of themselves using a webcam or something? What's stopping a kid from holding up a photo of an older person?

Perhaps more noteworthy than the technology itself is that anybody would go through that level of effort to keep teenagers from looking at porn.

I really hope they're also using this technology in an actually useful way, e.g. attached to a web spider, searching for underage porn pictures.

Not quite totally with the article but with some modifications Microsoft could build this into Windows, whenever a new MP3 file is on your computer, the computer takes a screenshot of your face and with the file sends it to RIAA for examination to see if the file is legal or not. Maybe use the facial screening to determine if a good enough picture was taken of you before sending it to RIAA.

With laptops increasingly having built-in webcams, I'm surprised that at least one OS doesn't come pre-configured to take a picture every time you type in an incorrect password.

please, keep ideas like that to urself ;)

Pretty soon laptops will come with pepper spray.

that's not good enough.

You know, that soon enough people will demand to be tasered, and then they'll write about deliberately getting their pwd wrong three times just for the thrill.

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