The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) is debunking recent reports that imply the company wants to use facial recognition tech for children, adding that it has no intention of storing or using "selfies" of its users.
This is a shocking example of where we’ve gotten to in terms of latent disregard for privacy and complacency with corporations having far too much of your data.
The fact that this is even in debate as acceptable is very telling.
Completely ridiculous and should not even be a question. In my own lifetime we went from “parents ultimately need to make sure their underage children aren’t playing M-rated games” to “now we’re in a spot where we can scan your children, collect that data, potentially do whatever we want with that data, and paint it like we’re helping you as a parent block content to your child”. And people will eat it up.
This is a shocking example of where we’ve gotten to in terms of latent disregard for privacy and complacency with corporations having far too much of your data.
The fact that this is even in debate as acceptable is very telling.
Completely ridiculous and should not even be a question. In my own lifetime we went from “parents ultimately need to make sure their underage children aren’t playing M-rated games” to “now we’re in a spot where we can scan your children, collect that data, potentially do whatever we want with that data, and paint it like we’re helping you as a parent block content to your child”. And people will eat it up.