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But the most critical ingredient has been the companies’ growing photo collections of kids in the real world. Sottil, the Incode executive, said the company had paid a contractor to get kids’ facial photos with their parents’ permission across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, sometimes in exchange for Amazon gift cards.
Yoti, which collected face data in Nairobi years before “Share to Protect,” had hoped the South Africa project would be well received by parents because of its stated focus on keeping kids safe. “People share photos of their children all the time,” Dawson, the chief policy officer, said at the time.
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But as Riaan van der Bergh remembered it, many parents refused to sign up because of their “fear of the unknown.” The offer of money for each photo backfired, he added, making it all seem uncomfortably transactional. ...
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