QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoSpotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UKwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down11
arrow-up115arrow-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 · 3 months agomessage-square51linkfedilink
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months 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-up0·3 months agoEven using a credit card for something like Spotify is already giving out more information than is needed.
minus-squareFreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoHow do you suggest people pay for Spotify?
minus-squaredisco@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months 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-up0·3 months 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-down1·3 months 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-up0·3 months agoDate of birth (with some other details) is kind of a sensitive information in the right hands
minus-squareAvicenna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 months 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.
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.