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duskwufftoday at 12:10 AM2 repliesview on HN

Even wilder - they're claiming to look at a user's activity on the platform - like what servers they're on, what games they play, and what hours they're active - and infer adulthood from that. No way that'd pass legal muster.


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legitstertoday at 12:36 AM

It seems like these systems would be very easy to reverse engineer. Pretend to be an old person on Discord (whatever that entails) long enough to get them off the case.

philipovtoday at 12:24 AM

I'm curious just how wrong they're going to be about the ages of people who work from home or use a mobile device at work.