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Is Age Verification Compatible With Privacy Law?

This is where emerging age-restriction policy collides with existing privacy law. Modern data-protection regimes all rest on similar ideas: Collect only what you need, use it only for a defined purpose, and keep it only as long as necessary. Age enforcement undermines all three. To prove they are following age-verification rules, platforms must log verification attempts, retain evidence, and monitor users over time. When regulators or courts ask whether a platform took reasonable steps, “We collected less data” is rarely persuasive. For companies, defending themselves against accusations of ne

The Age Verification Trap
How Do Age-Verification Systems Fail?

These systems fail in predictable ways. False positives are common. Platforms identify minors as adults with youthful faces, or adults who are sharing family devices, or have otherwise unusual usage. They lock accounts, sometimes for days. False negatives also persist. Teenagers learn quickly how to evade checks by borrowing IDs, cycling accounts, or using VPNs. The appeal process itself creates new privacy risks. Platforms must store biometric data, ID images, and verification logs long enough to defend their decisions to regulators. So if an adult who is tired of submitting selfies to verify

The Age Verification Trap

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New Concerns Raised About Age Verification Used By PlayStation

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California lawmakers push new bill to exempt open-source projects from age verification law

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As expected, Linux slipped past California’s age-verification crackdown

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California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law

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r/privacy · u/alicedean · 1w ago

In Malaysia, there was a bomb threat incident which is likely the first ever violent reaction against privacy-intrusive age verification laws

In Malaysia, there was a bomb threat incident which is likely the first ever violent reaction against privacy-intrusive age verification laws
r/privacy · u/PaiDuck · 3w ago

Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, sign letter opposing UK age verification

Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, sign letter opposing UK age verification
r/privacy · u/dancing_swordfish · 3w ago

Concerns mount that EU will demand age verification for VPNs

Concerns mount that EU will demand age verification for VPNs
r/privacy · u/donutloop · 3w ago

EU Calls VPNs a 'Loophole' that 'Needs Closing' in Age Verification Laws

EU Calls VPNs a 'Loophole' that 'Needs Closing' in Age Verification Laws
r/privacy · u/EFForg · 1d ago

Age Verification is a Privacy Nightmare

We all want young people to be safe online, but we don’t need to trade everyone's digital rights to achieve it. These new restrictive mandates are used to justify government-led censorship and expanded surveillance. That…