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2026-02-01 22:14:28

Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.

... The term “age verification” is colloquially used to describe a wide range of age assurance technologies, from age verification systems that force you to upload government ID, to age estimation tools that scan your face, to systems that infer your age by making you share personal data. While different laws call for different methods, one thing remains constant: every method out there collects your sensitive, personal information and creates barriers to accessing the internet. We refer to all of these requirements as age verification, age assurance, or age-gating....

https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification

https://youtu.be/PxnB8dSMGBc?t=104
109 min video
#EFF #video #AgeVerification #invasive #sureillance

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods—before granting them access …

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