QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoSpotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UKwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkSpotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UKwww.techradar.comQuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square21linkfedilink
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoI don’t mind giving my date of birth to all the services I already pay for with credit card but face scanning? That’s just creepy. Fuck off.
minus-squareVinstaal0@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoEven using a credit card for something like Spotify is already giving out more information than is needed.
minus-squareFreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·11 days agoHow do you suggest people pay for Spotify?
minus-squaredisco@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-211 days agoHe’s saying if you have a credit card to pay there’s no need to verify (I think) Edit: nah I’m wrong, cheers
minus-squareVinstaal0@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoI just hate credit cards since they are like the worst payment method unless you want to dig a financial hole for yourself
minus-squareFreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·11 days agoOnly if you’re bad with money. Nothing wrong with credit cards themselves, and most of them these days are credit/debit cards.
minus-squarenpdean@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoDate of birth (with some other details) is kind of a sensitive information in the right hands
minus-squareAvicenna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 days agogiven that governments are now starting to make certain protests illegal, definitely not as bad as having your face in a database and your behaviour being mapped for suspicious illegal activity like criticising genocide.
I don’t mind giving my date of birth to all the services I already pay for with credit card but face scanning? That’s just creepy. Fuck off.
It is 1970-01-01 like me, no?
Even using a credit card for something like Spotify is already giving out more information than is needed.
How do you suggest people pay for Spotify?
He’s saying if you have a credit card to pay there’s no need to verify (I think)
Edit: nah I’m wrong, cheers
I just hate credit cards since they are like the worst payment method unless you want to dig a financial hole for yourself
Only if you’re bad with money. Nothing wrong with credit cards themselves, and most of them these days are credit/debit cards.
Date of birth (with some other details) is kind of a sensitive information in the right hands
given that governments are now starting to make certain protests illegal, definitely not as bad as having your face in a database and your behaviour being mapped for suspicious illegal activity like criticising genocide.