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The bill requires social media services to use a reasonable age verification method to verify the age of users if they want to make an account and of accounts existing before July 1, 2024, and if the user is under 18 years of age, they must suspend the account within 14 days or get consent from a parent or guardian. [186]
Age verification laws have passed in 19 states since 2023, in hopes of protecting minors from adult content. But critics argue these laws actually undermine the rights of adults who visit these sites.
Proponents of online age verification laws say they're needed to stop teenagers and children from using social media or seeing adult content. ... Score one for the 16-year-old who just wants to ...
I recently spoke to Paul Taske, a litigator at NetChoice, a 501(c)(6) nonprofit advocacy group currently fighting various age verification laws in court. “We see data breaches all over the place ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ... Want more for your money ...
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 ...