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  • sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pubtoprivacy@lemmy.ca•Ambient age verification
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    1 day ago

    Sounds like a recipe for account sharing.

    Any reasonable form of age verification can be bypassed by account sharing - even if a site makes people reconfirm their identity every time they log in (eg, facial recognition or prints) the user can just hand their device to a child after logging in.

    Which is one of the many, many flaws of age verification laws.

    Sure, there are ways to bypass Newgrounds’ policy. But the goal of this policy is to comply with UK law while still respecting user privacy. So the relevant question isn’t “will this policy 100% confirm the age of account holders” but “is this policy effective enough to comply with the law”.