[Users] who believe they have been wrongly categorised as under 16 can ask for a review and submit a “video selfie” to verify their age. They can also provide a driver’s licence or a government-issued identification.
Because uploading your image and ID to Meta isn’t a security risk at all, oh no.
Why are governments helping Meta and friends harvest their citizens’ data? Evil or clueness?
I “lost” my old FB account because they demanded my ID to verify my legal name, near 11 years ago. I fucking refuse, and will always refuse.
Fuck Zucc.
Evil, since they probably have backdoors into all of those systems. Though I’m not sure why they want a bunch of videos of 16 year olds…
Though I’m not sure why they want a bunch of videos of 16 year olds…
Do they have pizza restaurants with secret basements in Aus? /s
You know I stopped at “meta is kicking Australian children” and had a good laugh.
(But keeping their data)
Of course. They are gathering data from people who have never even had a meta account.
On the one hand, I actually think this is a very good thing. Social media is especially damaging to children.
However:
The government says platforms must take “reasonable steps” to keep kids off their sites and use age assurance technologies, such as uploading official ID or facial/voice recognition, but they haven’t specified what technology platforms should use.
I hope the law stipulates that Meta is not allowed to keep this data, or use it for any purpose other than the verification itself. Not for training, not for building a profile on someone, nothing. Unfortunately the article doesn’t elaborate on that.
If they’re allowed to keep that data, then that needs to be addressed immediately. It’d be all kinds of fucked up.
The problem is not even social media itself, but the fact that profit-driven ANYTHING cares more about money than its own consumers. Quite frankly, what should be happening is to see some of these people changing to better alternatives, like Mastodon and Lemmy.
Finally, I do not believe this will remain only for the 16- age group. I am aware this is extreme speculation, but this may eventually roll out to some “dangerous” adults, then union workers (ahain, “dangerous), then women, then everyone that is not wealthy enough to bribe oneself into social media. I also believe this is one of many steps to castrate the future of the young, and to control the narrative.
Do not take my word for it, however; check back in this post, some years from now.
So how does this affect all those kids with Meta Quest VR? This is why I don’t own a quest and still have HTC goggles regardless of that flaws.
There’s probably a distinction between a Meta account and a Facebook account.
I would imagine not at all given that you don’t need a facebook account for Quest and the headset doesn’t count as social media.
They’re making it harder and harder to use without a FB account. I believe the newest one is near impossible.
Nah, the other way around. Facebook account used to be a requirement years ago, but they dropped it pretty soon.
Usually I’m against this sort of thing but hear me out:
- it’ll at least keep SOME kids off social media
- “kids will just use VPNs” >> some will, but maybe govs will finally realise how stupid trying to block things are and actually start regulating social media properly
- “kids will just join other social medias” >> not great but maybe that’ll help break meta’s dominance?
We have won, but at what cost…
If I had kids, I’d say an hour of social media is fine. After that, give me the phone and do your damn homework you dumb kid.
Good you don’t have any.
