Easy legislation to go around. Friday, July 25, the United Kingdom online Security Law. It forces the sites and platforms that differ the pornographic content to verify the age of its users and configure tools to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content.
With a goal: to protect young Internet users. Pornographic sites are concerned, but also certain social networks such as Discord, Reddit or X, Ex-Twitter.
Discord and Reddit Dupés
As expected, Internet users quickly tried to overcome these new rules. If some have resorted to VPN, to freely access this content, others have been more inventive. This is the case of Dany Sterkhov. As The Verge reports, the young man discovered that it was possible to dive the facial recognition tools … thanks to a photo of a video game character Death party.
In fact, it only opens Death party And to use the photographic mode of the game. Then just aim the camera of his device in Sam Bridges, the hero of the saga and voila.
In Discord, K-ID, the facial recognition service simply asks the user to open and close the mouth. An option offered through facial expressions of the photo mode in Death party. In Reddit, the person tool requires moving the face. In the game, simply move the camera around Sam Bridges. In both cases, minors only take a few minutes to avoid these age controls. The two systems could not make the difference between human and digital faces. On the other hand, the Yoti system, used by Bluesky, was not deceived by the virtual Sam Bridges.
At the moment, the fault does not seem to have been corrected. Contacted by Tech & Co, Discord has not yet responded to our request for comments.
Facial recognition is not the only tool available for platforms to control the age of users. The online security law also authorizes verification systems with an identity document or a credit card, the age certificate through a trust provider or the use of third -party databases.
In case of non -compliance, the platforms are exposed to fines of up to 18 million pounds sterling (more than 20 million euros), or 10% of their global turnover if this amount is greater. In case of recurrences, the site can simply block.
Source: BFM TV
