Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: age verification

“Fascinating how when it’s voting age they are ‘under-18s’, or ‘16 & 17 year olds’, but when it’s online safety, smartphones & social media they are ‘children’” | @cyberleagle

2024/05/25
Public library to become adults-only due to new Idaho law

2024/05/22
Thread by @matthew_d_green | …the dangerous trajectory towards requiring government ID for the entire internet

2024/05/07
Hours After Aussie Gov’t Greenlights Online Age Verification Pilot, Breach Of Mandated Verification Database For Bars Is Revealed | Techdirt

2024/05/03
Perhaps the upside of age verification will be the exclusion of the 70+ demographic from politics?

2024/04/25
Porn panic imperils privacy online, with Alec Muffett (re-air): Lock and Code S05E08 | @Malwarebytes

2024/04/08
US FTC (temporarily) declines to approve “Age Estimation” as a proxy for parental consent; @GetYoti “disappointed”

2024/04/02
The Kids Online Safety Act and the State of Tech Policy | Lawfare

2024/03/28
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