The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has temporarily denied the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), along with partners SuperAwesome and Yoti, from implementing an AI-powered face-scanning system designed to estimate a user's age for game purchases. This decision, aimed at enhancing child privacy protection laws, blocks the use of facial recognition technology for age verification but leaves room for future reconsideration. Critics, including notable figures within the FTC, argue that there is no privacy-protective way to implement such a system, highlighting concerns over the safety and privacy implications of facial scanning.
Roughly a year after the ESRB was met with scrutiny for partnering with Yoti, a digital identification firm, the FTC has rejected a proposal to use facial recognition technology as age verification. https://t.co/lW98YQF7xM https://t.co/ilJjm1POFB
FTC Declines to Approve Face-Scanning Age-Verification Tool for Games (for Now) https://t.co/gadOcwZ4Uc
FTC Temporarily Denies ESRB Application For Face Scan Tech https://t.co/sAicIEWlTZ https://t.co/to93mX6JIp
The FTC has rejected the ESRB's proposal to use its facial age estimation technology to verify a user's age. More details here: https://t.co/lW98YQF7xM https://t.co/PPNdDrHfRj
FTC responds to ESRB's proposal for an AI-powered face-scanning 'age estimation' system "No" https://t.co/FnGwIdyS0v
The FTC has denied the ESRB's proposal for an AI-powered face-scanning "age estimation" system, but that's probably not the end of it. https://t.co/JpYL7MxsPO
The ESRB, SuperAwesome, and Yoti's joint application to OK facial age estimation tech under child privacy protection laws is denied for now, may be re-filed at a later date https://t.co/zOD6UcWWzR
US government denies ESRB's AI-powered face-scanning "age estimation" proposal, but it's probably not gone for good. https://t.co/q9ebOXDWhm
FTC denies facial age estimation as verification tactic https://t.co/mSFGj9vMm7 #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev
FTC blocks facial recognition plans for game purchases https://t.co/nwXwJVjztq https://t.co/S4mSFntIOb
FTC blocks facial recognition plans for game purchases https://t.co/UxzromUadT #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev
Another great move from the @FTC. A world where you get your face scanned to access a website is not a safer world. There is no "privacy protective" way to scan people's faces in order to estimate their age. Well done @linakhanFTC @BedoyaFTC and all https://t.co/3ZMid881RN