Skavau@piefed.social to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoReddit is weighing identity verification methods to combat its bot problemwww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up186arrow-down1external-linkReddit is weighing identity verification methods to combat its bot problemwww.engadget.comSkavau@piefed.social to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
Steve Huffman, Reddit’s CEO, said that using biometrics is the “most lightweight way” to verify that it’s a human.
minus-squared00ery@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoInteresting that govts are also considering biometrics to verify age. Crazy how everyone is clamping down on this at the same time, but I’ve yet to meet real people who like the idea. Back at the start of the year the UK govt. ran with the excuse that digital id was to prevent migrants working https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o (which is unbelievable bullshit, if people already pay cash in hand, a digital identity will not change a thing)
Interesting that govts are also considering biometrics to verify age. Crazy how everyone is clamping down on this at the same time, but I’ve yet to meet real people who like the idea.
Back at the start of the year the UK govt. ran with the excuse that digital id was to prevent migrants working https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o
(which is unbelievable bullshit, if people already pay cash in hand, a digital identity will not change a thing)