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by stevenicr 2691 days ago
Sounds like it may be trivial for you all to make another app that does the same thing with IDs / identification..

I like the on-device privacy with your system. I could have used an ID check / age check thing like this a few times over the years. Some people have been good at taking a photo of their ID and emailing it or posting to a web form, others tried taking the top results on google for fake ID and using a picture of that...

I would not expect a system like this to detect 100%, but it could have easily cut in half the amount of terribly fake IDs that were sent in to us.. which sounds nice.

Might be an option for whichever company to add in a user select-able option to upload / send the pic in for human review (and further net training) as an option if it fails, or fails with a certain percent or something..

can see a lot of use cases for this, glad to see you all working on this.

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Amazing - thanks for all the feedback. This is definitely on the roadmap - stay tuned!!
Danger on that front...

A company I worked with in the not so distant past got some real nastygrams.

There's a mountain of patents in that space that are near impossible to avoid stepping on.

Thank you much for sharing this. That's something I would not have even thought about.

On the flip side of that thinking, I wonder if that could be used to put all the places out of business that are trying to make the UK's 'you must prove age to see porn or nipples law' work, and if that would invalidate their law or just make it convenient that it could be impossible to implement and therefor just a backdoor to ban porn.

Interesting - would love to get more context if it's possible to share