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The most basic form of age verification is to asks a person to input their date of birth on a form. However, this depends on an honor system that assumes the validity of the end user (which can be a minor who fraudulently inserts a valid date that meets the age criteria, rather than their own), and has thus been described as ineffective.
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 ...
A new AI-powered web tool seems tailor-made to help teens get around age-verification laws online—and showcases the futility of trying to set a minimum age for social media use.
The gist: There’s currently no way to make online age verification work without introducing new problems. Pay attention, legislators in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Ultimately, age verification laws are a misguided attempt to address the complex issue of underage social media use. Instead of placing undue burdens on users and limiting parental liberty ...
In addition, age restrictions and the "parental consent" process are easy for children to circumvent, and parents generally help them to lie about their age. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] An Internet Safety Technical Task Force composed of experts from academia and commercial companies found in 2012 that mandatory age verification is not only a poor solution ...
The court also ruled that the question of the law’s social media age verification requirement – which opponents say could include government identification and thus erode social media ...
Proposed UK Internet age verification system This page was last edited on 4 December 2024, at 00:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...