Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: age assurance

Australia: “Teen social media trial isn’t testing some ways kids will get around the [social media age verification] ban” | @crikey_news

2025/06/20
Why I Emphatically Oppose Online Age Verification Mandates | Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2025/04/15
If Age Verification is to be done at all, it should be like this: a bearer-token signed by the App Store, Browser Provider or Device, and trusted by the Age-Consumer e.g. Age-Restricted Service Vendor

2025/03/05
UK watchdog probes TikTok (and Reddit, Imgur) over children’s data | POLITICO

2025/03/03
“The ICO […] say they don’t expect you to implement age assurance measures which […] pose a significant & disproportionate economic impact on businesses” | @pwaring@fosstodon.org

2025/02/14
Perhaps the upside of age verification will be the exclusion of the 70+ demographic from politics?

2024/04/25
US FTC (temporarily) declines to approve “Age Estimation” as a proxy for parental consent; @GetYoti “disappointed”

2024/04/02
Shoshana Weissmann on Twitter: “…a new [US] age verification [proposal] would force platforms to maintain databases of parents’ / children’s government IDs, face scans etc… until the child turns 18. ENORMOUS cyber risk. Age verification forces cyber risk already and this makes it worse”

2024/03/27
“Over the past day, searches for ‘Texas VPN’ increased by 1,750% … Searches for ‘Is porn banned in Texas’ showed a 3,100% increase [&] a 1,600% increase in search trends for ‘How to access Pornhub’”

2024/03/16
“Wow. Pornhub shut down in Texas. Redtube also. I’m thinking Texas lawmakers will reverse course real quick lol” | Reddit

2024/03/14
As Predicted: Scammers Are Now Scanning Faces To Defeat Biometric Security Measures | Techdirt

2024/02/28
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students | …I wonder if @getyoti are watching the public reaction to this?

2024/02/26