The minister of the (Supreme Federal Court) stated this Thursday (5) that big techs have enough technology to identify fake accounts and stop them. The judge cited captcha, a type of security measure known as challenge and response authentication, when a page asks the user to select similar images, for example.
“Not a few times, and perhaps it’s one of the most annoying things there is, you go into something, they ask: ‘Are you a robot?’. Then you say no. Then it comes, click where there’s a traffic light, you click on the traffic light , it never works. It only works the third or fourth time. I think the robot doesn’t have as much patience as the human being”, he said.
According to Moraes, the tool demonstrates the possibility of control that companies have at their disposal.
“There is a lack of good will, because, in fact, that is the design of the business: to have more robots, more offenses, more hate speech, monetize and make more money. So we have to choose whether we are going to allow a truly wild capitalism on the networks or if we are going to put the Constitution within the networks too”, he stated.
The comment was made during the fourth session of the STF dedicated to the . This afternoon, the minister, rapporteur of one of the cases, .
The minister defended that the STF establishes the responsibility of companies after notifying offended users or directly, without the need for a complaint, in cases of unidentified or automated accounts, robots, and in serious situations, such as violence against women , terrorism, attack on the rule of law or influence in the electoral process.
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