Social media companies might use facial recognition to ban underage users [Video]

The United Kingdom may soon force social media firms to seek out and remove underage users from their platforms.

The UK’s Office of Communications, more commonly known as Ofcom, has set out a plan to force tech companies to use facial recognition to ban social media users who are underage.

“The sort of thing that we might look to in that space is some of this facial age estimation technology that we see companies bringing in now, which we think is really pretty good at determining who is a child and who is an adult,”Jon Higham, Ofcom’s head of online safety policy, told The Telegraph in an interview. “So we’re going to be looking to drive out the use of that sort of content, so platforms can determine who’s a child and who isn’t, and then put in place extra protections for kids to stop them [from] seeing toxic content.”

Ofcom told …