Instagram wants to verify your age using a video selfie

In the old days of the Internet, children could just lie about their age to unlock the full breadth of the World Wide Web and create accounts in social media services. As the Internet has grown bigger and more dangerous in recent times, some companies have started to crack down on this. Instagram requires its users to be at least 13 years old, and now, if you need to change the birthdate in your account, the app will need proof that the change is justified. To do so, it could enlist the use of some... peculiar methods.

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Arol Wright

In the old days of the Internet, children could just lie about their age to unlock the full breadth of the World Wide Web and create accounts in social media services. As the Internet has grown bigger and more dangerous in recent times, some companies have started to crack down on this. Instagram requires its users to be at least 13 years old, and now, if you need to change the birthdate in your account, the app will need proof that the change is justified. To do so, it could enlist the use of some... peculiar methods.

https://ift.tt/dvB2OQD June 24, 2022 at 10:30AM