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Status of Social Media Age Verification laws in the United States. In 2022 California passed The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act or AB 2273 which requires websites that are likely to be used by minors to estimate visitors ages to give them some amount of privacy control and on March 23, 2023, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed SB 152 and HB 311 collective known as the Utah Social ...
Every social media company must verify the age of new users after the law takes effect and if the user had created an account before the law took effect, they must verify the age of the person attempting to access the account within 14 days and if the new user or the user who originally owned an account is under 18 years of age they must get parental consent and the third party or social media ...
I think most people recognize that, in an ideal world, online age verification would be a good thing; we don’t let kids wander into adult cinemas, and the online world shouldn’t operate ...
Control freaks who want to substitute their judgment for that of parents get to pass their age verification laws, and web users can ignore those laws with ease. Everybody is happy! Except, there's ...
An age verification system, also known as an age gate, is any technical system that externally verifies a person's age.These systems are used primarily to restrict access to content classified, either voluntarily or by local laws, as being inappropriate for users under a specific age, such as alcohol, tobacco, gambling, video games with objectionable content, pornography, or to remain in ...
Proponents of online age verification laws say they're needed to stop teenagers and children from using social media or seeing adult content. But even if you agree with this goal in theory, its ...
YouTube started treating all videos designated as "made for kids" as liable under COPPA on January 6, 2020, [22] resulted in some videos that contain drugs, profanity, sexual content, and violence, along side some age-restricted videos, also being affected, [23] despite YouTube claiming that such content is "likely not made for kids".
Free speech advocates and technology trade groups argued the age verification provision would effectively end anonymous speech on major social media sites, and had a chilling effect on online speech.