CAPTCHA: Difference between revisions

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"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" or [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] was invented in 2000 as a means to deter [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|bots]] and [[wikipedia:Spamming|spam]] on publicly available websites.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Burling |first=Stacey |date=15 Jun 2012 |title=CAPTCHA: The story behind those squiggly computer letters |url=https://phys.org/news/2012-06-captcha-story-squiggly-letters.html |website=Phys.org}}</ref>

"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" or [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] was invented in 2000 as a means to deter [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|bots]] and [[wikipedia:Spamming|spam]] on publicly available websites.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Burling |first=Stacey |date=15 Jun 2012 |title=CAPTCHA: The story behind those squiggly computer letters |url=https://phys.org/news/2012-06-captcha-story-squiggly-letters.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617130133/http://m.phys.org/news/2012-06-captcha-story-squiggly-letters.html |archive-date=17 Jun 2012 |website=Phys.org}}</ref>

==Consumer impact==

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===Accessibility===

The [[wikipedia:World_Wide_Web_Consortium|World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) releases a periodic report on the Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA technology. Their 2021 report concluded that "traditional CAPTCHA continues to be challenging for people with disabilities, but also that it is increasingly insecure and arguably now ill suited to the purpose of distinguishing human individuals from their robotic impersonators."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=16 Dec 2021 |title=Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA |url=https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ |website=W3C}}</ref> It is important for websites to be able to keep unwanted bots from accessing their sites, however CAPTCHA may not be the best way to do so.

The [[wikipedia:World_Wide_Web_Consortium|World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) releases a periodic report on the Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA technology. Their 2021 report concluded that "traditional CAPTCHA continues to be challenging for people with disabilities, but also that it is increasingly insecure and arguably now ill suited to the purpose of distinguishing human individuals from their robotic impersonators."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=16 Dec 2021 |title=Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA |url=https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216162624/https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ |archive-date=16 Dec 2021 |website=W3C}}</ref> It is important for websites to be able to keep unwanted bots from accessing their sites, however CAPTCHA may not be the best way to do so.

===Data privacy concerns===

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===Crowdsourcing of labor===

Services such as [[Google|Google's]] [[reCAPTCHA]] have been found to be using human input to perform transcription work or train machine learning models without user consent. In 2015, a class-action lawsuit attempted to argue Google should pay its users for their labor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 Jan 2015 |title=Civil Action No. 15-10160-MGM |url=https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=historical |website=United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts}}</ref>

Services such as [[Google|Google's]] [[reCAPTCHA]] have been found to be using human input to perform transcription work or train machine learning models without user consent. In 2015, a class-action lawsuit attempted to argue Google should pay its users for their labor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 Jan 2015 |title=Civil Action No. 15-10160-MGM |url=https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=historical |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160209093438/https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=historical |archive-date=2016-02-09 |website=United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts}}</ref>

==Alternatives==

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-"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" or [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] was invented in 2000 as a means to deter [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|bots]] and [[wikipedia:Spamming|spam]] on publicly available websites.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Burling |first=Stacey |date=15 Jun 2012 |title=CAPTCHA: The story behind those squiggly computer letters |url=https://phys.org/news/2012-06-captcha-story-squiggly-letters.html |website=Phys.org}}</ref>
+"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" or [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] was invented in 2000 as a means to deter [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|bots]] and [[wikipedia:Spamming|spam]] on publicly available websites.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Burling |first=Stacey |date=15 Jun 2012 |title=CAPTCHA: The story behind those squiggly computer letters |url=https://phys.org/news/2012-06-captcha-story-squiggly-letters.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617130133/http://m.phys.org/news/2012-06-captcha-story-squiggly-letters.html |archive-date=17 Jun 2012 |website=Phys.org}}</ref>
 ==Consumer impact==
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 ===Accessibility===
-The [[wikipedia:World_Wide_Web_Consortium|World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) releases a periodic report on the Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA technology. Their 2021 report concluded that "traditional CAPTCHA continues to be challenging for people with disabilities, but also that it is increasingly insecure and arguably now ill suited to the purpose of distinguishing human individuals from their robotic impersonators."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=16 Dec 2021 |title=Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA |url=https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ |website=W3C}}</ref> It is important for websites to be able to keep unwanted bots from accessing their sites, however CAPTCHA may not be the best way to do so.
+The [[wikipedia:World_Wide_Web_Consortium|World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) releases a periodic report on the Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA technology. Their 2021 report concluded that "traditional CAPTCHA continues to be challenging for people with disabilities, but also that it is increasingly insecure and arguably now ill suited to the purpose of distinguishing human individuals from their robotic impersonators."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=16 Dec 2021 |title=Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA |url=https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216162624/https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ |archive-date=16 Dec 2021 |website=W3C}}</ref> It is important for websites to be able to keep unwanted bots from accessing their sites, however CAPTCHA may not be the best way to do so.
 ===Data privacy concerns===
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 ===Crowdsourcing of labor===
-Services such as [[Google|Google's]] [[reCAPTCHA]] have been found to be using human input to perform transcription work or train machine learning models without user consent. In 2015, a class-action lawsuit attempted to argue Google should pay its users for their labor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 Jan 2015 |title=Civil Action No. 15-10160-MGM |url=https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=historical |website=United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts}}</ref>
+Services such as [[Google|Google's]] [[reCAPTCHA]] have been found to be using human input to perform transcription work or train machine learning models without user consent. In 2015, a class-action lawsuit attempted to argue Google should pay its users for their labor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 Jan 2015 |title=Civil Action No. 15-10160-MGM |url=https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=historical |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160209093438/https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=historical |archive-date=2016-02-09 |website=United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts}}</ref>
 ==Alternatives==