Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: age verification

“Signal President Meredith Whittaker threatens again to pull the encrypted messaging app out of the UK”

2026/06/11
I designed a hat for the Age Verification community. We should ship a bunch of them to Westminster.

2026/06/09
Australia: “the reason that age verification is not working / that kids keep circumventing it, is a lack of good faith on the part of the platforms”

2026/06/08
This: Clippy The Magic Nonce Detector

2026/06/08
California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web

2026/05/27
How Often Do Consumers Balk at Doing Online Age Authentication? | Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2026/05/26
Mandatory Age Verification + Lack of Account Memorialization = Horrific Insensitivity by Substack (& others?)

2026/05/23
‘Von der Leyen Announces the EU’s New Age Verification App Claiming it is “Completely Anonymous” & users “Cannot be Tracked”’ | …the EU is about to have its ‘Clipper’ moment

2026/04/15
I find it bizarre that the AgeVerification (AV) industry says “platforms don’t want AV because they don’t want private data” – BUT civil society says “platforms DO want AV because they want private data”

2026/04/13
Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone

2026/04/03
I am very much looking at the Apple Age Verification (AV) approach as the least bad way to do something terrible

2026/03/26
This cybersecurity tweet from @SciTechgovuk / DSIT is getting *brigaded* by people pointing out how the UK Government is actively undermining cybersecurity

2026/03/26