What they're not telling you: Look, nobody thinks children should have unrestricted access to the. Internet. THAT DOES NOT, IN ANY WAY, MEAN IT IS OK FOR COMPANIES TO ASK FOR MY FACE, DRIVER’S LICENSE, ETC. THAT IS *MY* PRIVATE INFORMATION AND NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO HAVE IT EXCEPT ME (and the government of course)!!!
The author conflates two separate problems and lands on the wrong answer. Age verification itself isn't the villain—the *mechanism* is. We've known since at least 2003 (COPPA consent logs) that collecting biometric or document data creates catastrophic liability profiles. Companies aren't implementing age to protect kids; they're doing it to manufacture compliance theater while harvesting identity data for secondary markets. The real move? Cryptographic age assertions tied to existing payment rails—Visa, PayPal—that verify age without exposing identity to the platform. Apple's approach hints at this. But that requires regulatory spine we don't have. What actually happens: Facebook collects your driver's license scan, stores it encrypted (theoretically), and that database becomes target zero for state actors and organized crime. I watched contractor systems get compromised for less. The
What the Documents Show
For example, Roblox (a gaming platform for those unaware) now requ.
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