Twitch requires UK users to verify age via facial scan for mature streams under new law, sparking privacy concerns.

It is the business of law to restrain those liberties which injure others, and the liberty to wander as a child through every chamber of vice online is such a liberty. The Online Safety Act, with all its imperfections, at least declares that platforms like Twitch are not mere tavern walls on which anyone may scribble, but hosts with duties to their youngest guests. An age check by the face is an ungentle thing, I grant, yet if it is truly brief, well guarded and limited to the mature entertainments it claims to fence, I would rather endure that than the continued experiment of leaving boys and girls alone with the whole world's debauchery. Vigilance is the price of such power, and citizens must watch both magistrate and merchant so that neither turns this precaution into a habit of surveillance.

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