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I think the purpose is advertising targeting kids disguised as child safety. > KidSwitch works by evaluating a number of signals in a content session (gesture
by dngray 7y ago
I think the purpose is advertising targeting kids disguised as child safety.
> KidSwitch works by evaluating a number of signals in a content session (gesture patterns, content interaction, hardware inputs etc).
These are all the sorts of things that advertising platforms already do.
> Prove you're not an adult"
And I think any machine learning based on that is a false sense of security.
Kids are humans and there's nothing inherently unique about them that distinguishes them reliably from adults enough to not have a by-pass feature. I would bet an adult who wants to "fool" the system would be capable of doing so.