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    Spotify Introduces Controversial Face-Scanning Age Verify for UK Customers

    James EvendenBy James EvendenAugust 5, 20252 Mins Read
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    Spotify has joined Xbox, Discord, and Reddit as the most recent main platform to implement age checks in compliance with the UK’s On-line Security Act, which mandates strong ID verification for entry to grownup or mature content material on-line.

    Efficient from July twenty fifth, the regulation impacts a variety of digital providers, and Spotify is now asking customers to show their age by way of strategies that embrace facial scanning and ID submission. Partnering with biometric ID agency Yoti, Spotify triggers verification checks when it suspects customers could also be underneath its minimal age requirement of 13 or making an attempt to entry age-restricted content material.

    Controversially, Spotify’s coverage additionally warns that accounts failing to adjust to the age verify could also be deactivated and finally deleted. Though Yoti claims that every one biometric information is deleted after verification, the transfer has prompted main privateness issues.

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    The method has been criticized for being too invasive, with some customers even claiming they’ve been requested for age verification regardless of being effectively over 18. There are additionally additional issues concerning the verification course of being circumvented by underage customers, who might doubtlessly use VPNs or parental IDs to sidestep restrictions. A vocal minority has even threatened to revert to piracy.

    Over on Discord, customers shortly found that the app’s age verification might be bypassed utilizing the photograph mode from the sport Loss of life Stranding. By importing a convincing in-game selfie of protagonist Sam Porter Bridges, customers efficiently fooled AI-based programs into granting entry, a loophole exploited inside hours of the regulation’s rollout.

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    In different Spotify information, a number of artists have pulled their music off the streaming platform because of CEO Daniel Ek‘s funding in AI drone know-how, with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard just lately following the lead of Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu.



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