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Age verification substantially increased in 2023-2024, with the passage of the U.K. Online Safety Act, a law in France, [2] laws in eight U.S. states including Texas and Utah, [3] and proposals at the federal level in the US, Canada, [4] Denmark, [5] and the EU.
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.
But with online age verification, all one may need is an image of that ID card. Enter OnlyFake, a website using AI technology to cheaply generate images of fake IDs.
With the passing of the Digital Economy Act 2017, the United Kingdom became the first country to pass a law containing a legal mandate on the provision of an Internet age verification system. Under the act, websites that published pornography on a commercial basis would have been required to implement a "robust" age verification system to ...
'Age Verification Requirements Are Likely Unconstitutional' As with so many things, Texas may have been a bad influence here. Indiana's S.B. 17—a copycat of H.B. 1181, minus the health warning ...
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. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] 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 ...
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 ...
The Online Safety Act 2023 [1] [2] [3] (c. 50) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate online speech and media. It passed on 26 October 2023 and gives the relevant Secretary of State the power, subject to parliamentary approval, to designate and suppress or record a wide range of speech and media deemed "harmful". [4] [5]