Source: https://infosec.exchange/users/isotopp/statuses/115059833470035521
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Age Verification
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New business idea, renting out your face via video feed to let people bypass age checks.
You’re not thinking big: Rent out other people’s faces!
Instead of an actual click farm where slave workers click phones all day, you make an app.
The app works like this: When the users (or let’s call them: “Partners”) get a notification from your app, they just have to smile at the camera, sometimes do other expressions. They are then rewarded with points which they can trade for for actual real life discounts on real online stores. Something like 1 cent per picture.
You now setup a service for people who want to bypass facial age verification and feed their requests directly to the app for a small fee of 5 cents per verification.
Rough business model to compete with free
The video game trick doesn’t work everywhere. I don’t know about deepfakes and such, both how easily available they are and how good they are at tricking the age verification.
Even if 3D images are required, surely there are 3D deepfake faces people can wear. But anyway, we’re being distracted by the part of this law that stops kids going online. The quiet part is the part that gets every adult to show their real face to some website. Those adults need deepfake faces just as much if not more so.
Oh yeah, definitely. That is indeed the purpose of this and the problem here