AI Age Checks Raise Privacy Fears: New Market for Trust & Alternatives
The discussion around YouTube's AI-powered selfie collection for age checks highlights growing public concern regarding data privacy and the intrusive nature of AI in personal identification. This sentiment shift creates a significant market opportunity for privacy-preserving technologies (PETs), alternative identity verification solutions, and ethical AI development. Businesses could focus on creating 'zero-knowledge proof' identity systems, secure biometric alternatives, or consulting services that help companies implement privacy-by-design principles for AI applications, fostering user trust in a privacy-conscious era.
Origin Reddit Post
r/technology
YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say
Posted by u/vriska1•08/01/2025
Top Comments
u/Mwgl
Number 1 cause of death for children in the USA is gun violence... Anything before better firearm regulation huh
u/Discordian_Junk
This whole Bill is just a new way to "legally" sell people's personal data, nothing to do with child safety.
If they gave a damn about children they'd fund schools better, reduce child pove
u/Discordian_Junk
This whole Bill is just a new way to "legally" sell people's personal data, nothing to do with child safety.
If they gave a damn about children they'd fund schools better, reduce child pove
u/Hrmbee
Some details of concern:
>Throughout the first half of August, YouTube will begin interpreting "a variety of signals" to determine if certain users are under 18. No new user data will be
u/KrimxonRath
So basically because I work in the animation industry and like video games YouTube is going to see me as a child and automatically block content lol
Brilliant.
u/mirh
There's something really fucked up if google going out of its way to try to assess user age without demanding a government ID (because now UK OSA forces them to be policemen) is sold as them
u/THEdoomslayer94
And?
u/Anxious-Depth-7983
As long as there's ways for these sites to profit from the selling of information they're going to be coming up with new ways to collect it, and if IDs or selfies are required to use the site
u/HomemPassaro
Man, the worst part about it is that, yes, we need to regulate social media better and make sure kids aren't in it. There's lots of research showing the negative effects for children.
But, b
u/Anxious-Depth-7983
As long as there's ways for these sites to profit from the selling of information they're going to be coming up with new ways to collect it, and if IDs or selfies are required to use the site
u/cleodivina11
They already track so much.
u/RosalilyArts
Back to good ol DVDs & cable tv
u/RosalilyArts
Back to good ol DVDs & cable tv
u/mirh
Why the hell is the petition against google, and not against the dumb UK/US governments?
u/Hrmbee
Some details of concern:
>Throughout the first half of August, YouTube will begin interpreting "a variety of signals" to determine if certain users are under 18. No new user data will be
u/Extreme-Ad-9290
ik this is technically against the rules, but look, if the mods have an issue with this, then they are just as bad if not worse than google
[https://chng.it/4DL58dsxvK](https://chng.it/4DL5
u/Extreme-Ad-9290
ik this is technically against the rules, but look, if the mods have an issue with this, then they are just as bad if not worse than google
[https://chng.it/4DL58dsxvK](https://chng.it/4DL5
u/cleodivina11
They already track so much.
u/craybest
Fuck all of this shite man. I’m sick of it
u/voiderest
Just physical media and VPN to get around blocks. I'm not going to watch cable and won't give sites my ID or face scan.
I have YouTube Premium and will just cancel it if they try age gating
u/mirh
Friendly reminder again that big tech doesn't sell anybody's data, because it's exactly their monopoly on that allowing to win big money with ad space.