US rating organization ESRB was inspired by China and wants to prevent children from playing inappropriate games by allowing such content to be blocked and unblocked only after analysis of the player’s face from a selfie photo. A few years ago, Tencent started using a similar system to regulate games in the Chinese market, especially mobile games.
Created in collaboration with Yeti and SuperAwesome, owned by Epic Games, the system has already been tested and it is supposed to reduce the level of false authentication. To avoid compromising user privacy, photos are permanently deleted after the entire verification process (which takes less than a second on average) and is not saved anywhere. These companies have been engaged in these methods since 2019.
It is important to note that intended to be optional for developers and publishers. They will be able to decide for themselves whether they want such a system in their game in the US and Canada. Its deployment must be approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). He collects feedback from the public.
If a publisher/developer implements this system, it’s probably just a matter of when some kid can outsmart it. However, there are concerns associated with the study. She found out that Asians and African Americans are 100 times more likely to be misidentified by facial recognition systems than whites.. In addition, some look younger in early adulthood, while others look older. For example, at the age of 21, I had to show an ID … I probably would not have gone through such a system.
“Evidence suggests that for those aged 25 to 35, 15 out of 1,000 women compared to 7 out of 1,000 men could be misclassified as under 25 (and be able to be tested by another method). The range of differences in skin color is from 8 per 1000 to 8 per 1000. 28 out of 1000 people, The ESRB said in a statement.
As a reminder, services in the United States must obtain parental consent before collecting personal information from children under the age of 13. Some time ago, major video game companies also violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Epic Games had to pay last year $520 million finebecause it collected data and information from people under the age of 13 who played Fortnite. All without parental consent. Microsoft was in the minority this year $20 million fine for the illegal collection of personal data of children who signed up for the Xbox system without parental consent.
Source :Indian TV
