Tencent Deploys Facial Recognition to Detect Minors Gaming at Night

22    07 Jul 2021 02:25 by u/kek

2 comments

3 u/ChineeCheetah 07 Jul 2021 12:36
It’s their mechanism to keep the camera recording while their app is running in the background, which teens carelessly do while masturbating with friends online (or to porno, if they gain access). Keep China out of kids’ “gaming at night”, I’d say.
2 u/gomugomu 07 Jul 2021 21:36
TLDR in 2019 china added a bunch of gaming restrictions on minors, eg no playing games between 10pm and 8am. Kids start posing as adults (think: the useless "i am over 13" checkbox"). So Tencent adds facial recognition between 10pm and 8am to check if they are actually adults. At least that's what they claim it's for...