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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Facial age estimation is the use of artificial intelligence to estimate the age of a person based on their facial features. Computer vision techniques are used to analyse the facial features in the images of millions of people whose age is known and then deep learning is used to create an algorithm that tries to predict the age of an unknown person. [1]
Age-verification requirements for social media companies increase the risk that users will be targeted by hackers because their data is valuable. And where data is required to be stored by law ...
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 ...
Age verification as mandated by the bill is not as simple as the user checking a box to say they’re 18 or older. Sites would need to collect proof of the user’s age through one of the approved ...