#Florida ban on kids using #SocialMedia likely unconstitutional, judge rules
Ars Technica · Florida ban on kids using social media likely unconstitutional, judge rules
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Pornhub, YouPorn owner suspends access to French users over age verification law
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113446
#AgeVerification #censorship #france #porn
Dropsafe · Pornhub, YouPorn owner suspends access to French users over age verification law
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Pornhub plans to suspend serving porn in France.
The owner of Pornhub, Redtube and YouPorn plans to stop serving adult content to French users as soon as Wednesday afternoon, in protest of government measures forcing it to verify the age of its visitors.
Politico.eu · Pornhub plans to suspend serving porn in France.
Michael Geist Notes Inclusion of Age Estimation in Bill S-209
With the introduction of age verification, I ran an analysis of the bill. Michael Geist did the same and noted the age estimation provisions.
https://www.freezenet.ca/michael-geist-notes-inclusion-of-age-estimation-in-bill-s-209/
„The EU is launching a new age verification app in July, establishing a tool that will potentially allow for tighter enforcement of rules requiring online platforms to protect minors online.“
EU to launch age-check app as pressure builds on Big Tech
https://www.ft.com/content/6b672468-a085-47dc-b195-daa98d6a591b
Financial Times · EU to launch age-check app as pressure builds on Big Tech
Conservative Internet Censorship Bill, Age Verification, is Back. Our Analysis
The Conservative party backed internet censorship bill, the age verification bill, is back before the senate already.
#Europe tries to force age verification onto #Pornhub and other adult sites
European regulators have opened formal proceedings into Pornhub and three other adult platforms for suspected violations of the #DigitalServicesAct (DSA), the #EuropeanCommission announced yesterday. Pornhub, #Stripchat , #XNXX , and #XVideos are accused of failing to prevent minors from accessing adult content.
#privacy #ageverification #xxx
Ars Technica · Europe tries to force age verification onto Pornhub and other adult sites
#Texas Requires #Apple and #Google to Verify Ages for App Downloads
The state’s governor signed a new law that will give parents more control over the apps that minors download, part of a raft of new legislation.
#privacy #ageverification
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/technology/apple-google-age-verification-apps-texas.html
The New York Times · Texas Requires Apple and Google to Verify Ages for App Downloads
First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.
They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then what? Rinse and escalate.
You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.
We don't have to wait that it escalates.
We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.
"The second approach is much broader, covering every social media user, and that’s tackling the way the platforms function. We have plenty of reporting and research that shows social media platforms are designed to be addictive — to ensure people spend more time on the app, thus generating more advertising profits. Social media platforms learned techniques from gambling companies to keep users hooked by using likes, notifications, and other methods to entice people to keep coming back, triggering dopamine responses that their brains craved even if the platforms made them feel worse at the same time.
Tackling those addiction design practices, dark patterns in interface design that nudge people to perform certain actions, and the way the platforms’ algorithms spread and amplify certain (often extreme or sensationalist) content to keep people engaged is a more difficult task than a hard age limit. Despite the country’s decision to move forward with an age limit, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has already been examining and reporting on platform design issues and the issues with algorithmic recommendation systems.
If we’re serious about minimizing the harms of social media platforms, design interventions and algorithmic limits are a much more promising approach."
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/social-media-must-be-reined-in
Disconnect · Social media must be reined in
Kids Say They're Using Photos of #Trump and #Markiplier to Bypass 'Gorilla Tag' #AgeVerification
Kids say they are using pictures of Trump, YouTuber Markiplier, and the G-Man from Half-Life to bypass newly integrated age restriction software in the VR game #GorillaTag.
404 Media · Kids Say They're Using Photos of Trump and Markiplier to Bypass 'Gorllia Tag' Age VerificationPopular VR game Gorilla Tag partnered with the company k-ID to comply with age verification laws.
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Score another point for the "absolutely no one ever could have predicted this outcome" department.
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I shall complain a little bit on a stance from EFF and how I think they should be pushing harder. Not so long ago Australia decided to ban any platform where users can upload things, to anybody who is younger than 16 years. This is an ageist, paternalistic atrocity and has to be fought with viciousness. Yet EFF seem to only understand the ...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/eff_is_not_opposing_age_verification_hard_enough
blenderdumbass . orgEFF Is Not Opposing Age Verification Hard Enough
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"When thinking about the safety of young people online, it is helpful to remember that we can build on and learn from the decades of experience we already have thinking through risks that can stem from content online. Before mandating a “fix,” like age checks or age assurance obligations, we should take the time to reflect on what it is exactly we are trying to address, and whether the proposed solution is able to solve the problem."
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Keeping People Safe Online – Fundamental Rights Protective Alternatives to Age ChecksThis is the final part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In part one, we give an overview of the political debate around age verification and explore the age verification proposal introduced by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part two takes a...
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"Regulation on verifiers (the service providers asking for age attestations) and what they can ask for is also just as important to limit a potential flood of verifiers that didn’t previously need age verification."
#UKPol #Privacy #AgeVerification
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-european-union-mini-id-wallet
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Age Verification in the European Union: The Commission's Age Verification AppThis is the second part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the age verification app solicited by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part one gives an overview of the political debate around age...
"Like many policymakers elsewhere, European regulators are increasingly focused on a range of online harms they believe are associated with online platforms, such as compulsive design and the effects of social media consumption on children’s and teenagers’ mental health. Many of these concerns lack robust scientific evidence; studies have drawn a far more complex and nuanced picture about how social media and young people’s mental health interact. Still, calls for mandatory #AgeVerification have become as ubiquitous as they have become trendy."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/digital-identities-and-future-age-verification-europe
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Digital Identities and the Future of Age Verification in EuropeThis is the first part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we give an overview of the political debate around age verification and explore the age verification proposal introduced by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part two...