If social networks were to employ facial scanning technology to determine a user's age when logging on (without saving the image), would this help protect children's safety online? In China, this kind of technology is being used to prove that people playing computer games are over a certain age in order to play past 10pm. "We will conduct a face screening for accounts registered with real names and which have played for a certain period of time at night," Chinese gaming firm Tencent said last Tuesday.
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