Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: age verification

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
This is absolute perfection: UBUNTU SECURE BOOT AGE VERIFICATION | Hacker.House

2026/03/20
One Week, Three Stories About Meta, Encryption, & Age Verification, and Why I’m Not Worried About (This Aspect of) Meta

2026/03/20
I suspect that Ofcom only ever accept that it is “highly effective age assurance” if somebody gets paid, ideally repeatedly | Apple permit “account age” as a means of age verification

2026/03/19
A New Jerusalem

2026/03/09
Ofcom’s [attempted] browbeating of Canada-based online depression forum into compliance with Online Safety Act “Age Verification”

2026/03/06
Journalists! Why you should not bother wasting your/everyone’s time covering “Age Verification” on Linux: The “Tug of War” Theory of Open Source

2026/03/04
“Governments should halt plans to roll out age checks on online services until privacy and security concerns are addressed, hundreds of academics said today”

2026/03/03
“The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all”| Taylor Lorenz | …Age Verification is Digital ID via the back door

2026/03/02