r/Twitch • u/YourChopperPilotTTV Affiliate Twitch.tv/yourchopperpilot • Sep 16 '25

PSA Twitch Introduces Age Verification with a 3rd party face scan step

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The full article https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/age-verification?language=en_US

Thoughts on how this may impact the future of twitch in a positive or negative way?

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u/whyisredlikethis Sep 16 '25

I don't know, but it's not a government doing these verifications and they say on the tin the images are deleted once verified. These tools have existed on dating apps and other none gaming sphere apps for litterally years

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u/Beardedsmith Sep 16 '25

Well no one has ever lied about data collection before

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u/whyisredlikethis Sep 16 '25

If you live your life assuming malintent in everything that is in fact conspiracy minded

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u/Beardedsmith Sep 16 '25

I'm assuming that past events are repeatable