Friction grows over age-estimating software and policies for gaming

Facial age estimation for video gaming has become an unlikely point of contention for industry and advocacy groups.

Generally, the estimating software does nothing else. No facial recognition or data storage, for example, tasks that can raise the hackles of privacy advocates.

And yet there is some heat this week surrounding age estimation.

The Entertainment Software Ratings Board is hotly contesting media reports – reports it says are completely erroneous -- that the organization plans to use facial recognition algorithms …

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