PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Messages and Voice Chat (insider-gaming.com) 55
A new email from Sony says that PlayStation will require players to verify their age later this year to keep using communication features like messages and voice chat. Insider-Gaming reports: The initiative comes from the goal of providing "safe, age-appropriate experiences for players and families while respecting their privacy" and providing "meaningful control over their gaming experiences." The age-verification process will be implemented globally, and players will need to verify their age to continue using PlayStation communication services, such as messages and voice chat. If the player opts not to verify their age, they can still use other services, such as games, trophies, and the store. Only the communication experience will be affected if you choose not to verify your age. PlayStation didn't provide a date for when players will need to begin the verification process.
"while respecting their privacy" (Score:3)
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Ok (Score:2, Insightful)
Those services aren't needed anyway
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Absolutely. Switching all those annoying features and overlays off was the very first thing I did after I bought my PS4. I've never missed them in any way.
Short Term Pain (Score:1)
Hopefully I can ditch my PS fairly quickly. I'll only need it until GTAVI gets a PC release.
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F the kids... nobody should care about them more than their parents who should already be parenting them correctly. My privacy is more important than your kids though and nobody should be forced to share their ID with companies that will ultimately lose that information in data breaches.
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Then those 50% of parent's shouldn't be allowed to have kids and the kids should be removed by the state.
I know victims of privacy breaches as well, people that will forever have their information posted online. Getting a line of credit takes an act of congress if it's even possible because they were the victim of data breaches, including the OPM one.
I'm not a grandparent though, not even a parent, and I care about your privacy and so should you.
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The USA is the worst of things , Greed, Entitlement, Racism, Bigotry, Religion, etc etc etc and you protect the Pedo President...
You have nothing to offer the sane world.
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The USA is the worst of things ,
Don't fall for overblown internet memes. Any big country has many problems, and the USA has a magnifying glass on top blowing its visibility. But if you follow news from European countries, you'll also find a lot of sad situations. Yet there are many places to choose from in e.g. the EU or the USA (or Brazil etc.), where you can do a daily life without being directly exposed to the major defects of the wider society. If you interact more with your local community and less with social networks, you'll be fin
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Real people in front of me are far more valuable to me than people on the net.
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The USA is the worst of things , Greed, Entitlement, Racism, Bigotry, Religion, etc etc etc and you protect the Pedo President...
I'm not saying that the USA isn't any of those things, because it is, but so are all other places. Literally all of those things are what you have everywhere, because everywhere is capitalistic, and capitalism provides the worst people among us with all of those things. (Religion is just a business, and an inherently fraudulent one at that.) Some places are a bit less capitalistic, so they have a bit less of those things.
Re: Good. (Score:2)
Nothing infuriates a socialist more than individual liberties.
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Nothing infuriates a socialist more than individual liberties.
Nothing triggers a capitalist douchebag who doesn't care about other people faster than hearing someone say that an economy should work for all its citizens, not only the privileged.
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I know you're unhappy, but it isn't because of politics or macroeconomics. I think that when you figure out how to fix the things in your life that you're unhappy about, everything will change for the better. And I pray that it will happen for you every night.
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fuck your entire family
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I think you're wrong.
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UK and EU have significant immigration too.
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Re: Good. (Score:1)
Not as much help as you are going to need with the turning of the tide and the shift in ideology that is happening, that you will be completely unable to stop.
The next years will hit YOU significantly harder than anything you could possibly write here in your tolerant-inclusive seething!
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Parental controls are pretty easy to set-up as-is but making it easier along with a public education campaign can be a solution that respects the privacy of others. Add a prominent (easy to find) option to the phone 'Enable kid mode", enter the kid's age, enter a PIN. Do not tell your kid the PIN. Give phone to kid. Problem solved.
If you're trying to argue that 45% of parents are too stupid to do that, yet they can install and use apps, sign up for accounts on social media and what not, then I simply don't
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I have, for People with PhDs and they were technologically inept, but in their own fields they were geniuses .
I have done it for Family, Friends, etc. And there had a mixture of Tech, Windows, Android, Apple, IOS as well as TVs, PS, Xbox etc.
I remember how inept my parents were in programming the VCR.
My First computer was a TRS-80.
I KNOW how inept parents are, and I care nothing for your stupidity.
I encourage outsourcing to protect their kids from Pe
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This is not IT. You are vastly overstating the difficulty of setting a simple option on a device they already know how to use. Parents are motivated to protect their children and even if they are not aware of a prominent and simple to use 'kid mode' option a public education programme will change that very quickly. There is no motivation to learn how to programme a VCR or dig into weird options in operating systems, it's a false equivalence.
I don't know who "we" is but I'm not from the USA. However, if you'
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I will continue to help those that do not understand tech. Including pushing for age verification tech etc.
I am doing a damn sight more to protect them than you are..... you are more likely a predator I think.
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Ah that old chestnut! Definitely a winning argument! Well, enjoy your day, I am defeated.
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Well your idea of parenting is not letting kids on chat okay - so don't sign them up or get them to verify their age. You're not impacted by this.
On the other hand if your idea of parenting is that you are going to monitor and curate your kid's chat experience, then their privacy from Sony is the least of their concerns, they are already going to grow up under your authoritarian regime (and will hate you for it).
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I was wondering if the bot was so simplistic that just repeating Trump fucks kids a few times would make that happen and sure enough it is.
A long time ago we had sophisticated actors manipulating opinion on this website because it was a pretty big part of the internet believe it or not but these days this is the best we get. Meanwhile Tru
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You seem obsessed with f***ing kids. I'd see a psychiatrist about that.
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Let's keep the groomers away from kids.
Corporations are the biggest groomers of them all.
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It's not about protecting the children and it will do nothing to protect the children.
The least evil theory i see floating around is that this is meant to create "identified people", so online advertising actually works.
Even if there's no actual data leak etc.. being an "adult" means you're a real human being possibly with a wallet.
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won't someone think of the children? (Score:5, Insightful)
And let's also think about how we can harvest their parent's data
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They are thinking about the children and all the tasty data they'll gain :D
Sony can track children (Score:3)
The real problem is the consequences of their child customer's PII being stolen: Since a child's Id. is a blank slate, it will be much more valuable in a few years: Plenty of time for criminals to hang fake jobs and fake mortgages on the stolen identity.
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People connect their consoles to the Internet? (Score:2)
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Games ship with big bugs, sometimes game breaking, and without connecting you generally don't get the updates. Are there downloadable updates made by the scene for some games? I used to see that on the original Xbox.
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Kids in particular like multiplayer games. You kinda do need a connection for those as local co-op long since went the way of the dodo.
chat IS mostly children (Score:2)
Have you ever been in voice chat? It's mostly kids using those things. I tried them out and was sorely disappointed because the people I was playing in the games seemed to be all SO much younger than me....so I just turned them off and played the game.
Just a reminder (Score:2)
They don't care about children. They have never cared about children and they never will.
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Without at least polling that supports your claim, we shouldn't assume this breaks on partisan lines.
I think you've made a bad assumption.
Not Enough (Score:2)
Age verification for use period.
These kids don't need to be playing games online. Get the fuck off the console and hit the books.
Super secure (Score:2)