{"id":2123,"date":"2021-07-11T06:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T04:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/11\/can-facial-analysis-technology-create-a-child-safe-internet\/"},"modified":"2021-07-11T06:37:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T04:37:04","slug":"can-facial-analysis-technology-create-a-child-safe-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/11\/can-facial-analysis-technology-create-a-child-safe-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Determining a person\u2019s age online seems like an intractable problem. But new technology and laws could be on the brink of solving it<\/p>\n<p>Suppose you pulled out your phone this morning to post a pic to your favourite social network \u2013 let\u2019s call it Twinstabooktok \u2013 and were asked for a selfie before you could log on. The picture you submitted wouldn\u2019t be sent anywhere, the service assured you: instead, it would use state-of-the-art machine-learning techniques to work out your age. In all likelihood, once you\u2019ve submitted the scan, you can continue on your merry way. If the service guessed wrong, you could appeal, though that might take a bit longer.<\/p>\n<p>The upside of all of this? The social network would be able to know that you were an adult user and provide you with an experience largely free of parental controls and paternalist moderation, while children who tried to sign up would be given a restricted version of the same experience.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/jul\/11\/proof-of-age-verification-online-facial-analysis-data-protection-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5cf862e184afdef316c88c53962b4b9839d5113d\/0_315_7198_4318\/master\/7198.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=edc38cda7f392b3437ebba967dff5b81\" title=\"Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?\" \/>Determining a person\u2019s age online seems like an intractable problem. But new technology and laws could be on the brink of solving it<br \/>\nSuppose you pulled out your phone this morning to post a pic to your favourite social network \u2013 let\u2019s call it Twinstabooktok \u2013 and were asked for a selfie before you could log on. The picture you submitted wouldn\u2019t be sent anywhere, the service assured you: instead, it would use state-of-the-art machine-learning techniques to work out your age. In all likelihood, once you\u2019ve submitted the scan, you can continue on your merry way. If the service guessed wrong, you could appeal, though that might take a bit longer.<br \/>\nThe upside of all of this? The social network would be able to know that you were an adult user and provide you with an experience largely free of parental controls and paternalist moderation, while children who tried to sign up would be given a restricted version of the same experience. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determining a person\u2019s age online seems like an intractable problem. But new technology and laws could be on the brink of solving it Suppose you pulled out your phone this morning to post a pic to your favourite social network \u2013 let\u2019s call it Twinstabooktok \u2013 and were asked for a selfie before you could &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/11\/can-facial-analysis-technology-create-a-child-safe-internet\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}