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age estimation
The Facial-Recognition Sham | The Atlantic
2025/08/12
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
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
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that adults shouldn’t have to share their personal information to access pornography online” | wow…
2024/02/23
The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification Legislation – R Street Institute
2024/02/22
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