How much should be known?
When one considers just what information could be downloaded—pictures, driver's licenses, state IDs, and other data—one could argue that age verification is amassing an immense database of stuff they simply should not have.
The question becomes, is the software disproportionatelyintrusive beyond the facts it needs to know?
Big Brother Watch makes the case that face prints are as potentially searchable as fingerprints and that “collecting biometric data of this scale inherently puts people’s privacy at risk.”And that risk could as much come from unscrupulous net hackers looking to use the information for further access into our lives, from the cyber breaches that seem to befall systems almost daily, and from just mishandling of sensitive information.
Concerns of accuracy
Beyond the privacy issue and what information could get hacked or sold, there is a question of how accurate age verification is and how easily it can be fooled.
Simply, it is hard for AI to detect age. As we have all seen and might be eternally envious of, some people (you lucky, good-looking so and so you!) simply do not look their age. Age-verification software often has a hard time with this interesting anonmolly of the human face.
And then there are plenty of people who do not physically present as the gender they identify as.
Then there are the deliberate attempts to fool age verification.
People also have been known to use other people’s profiles to log on, and fake IDs have been used by plenty of under 18-year-olds looking to look where they should not look
