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Age verification system
An age verification system, also known as an age gate, is any technical system that externally verifies a person's age. These systems are used primarily to restrict access to content classified, either voluntarily or by local laws, as being inappropriate for users under a specific age, such as alcohol, tobacco, gambling, video games with objectionable content, pornography, or to remain in compliance with internet privacy laws that regulate the collection of personal information from minors, such as COPPA in the United States. Age verification systems have been criticized for privacy and computer security risks.
Age verification substantially increased in 2023–2024, with the passage of the Online Safety Act 2023 in the UK, a law in France, laws in eight U.S. states including Texas and Utah, and proposals at the federal level in the US, Canada, Denmark, and the EU.
Online age verification is distinct from mandatory online identity registration in some countries with authoritarian tendencies.
The most basic form of age verification is to require a person to input their date of birth on a form. However, this depends on an honor system that assumes the honesty of the end user. The person may, for instance, be a minor who fraudulently inserts a valid date that meets the age criteria, rather than their own. For this reason the system has been described as ineffective.
Parental controls enable parents to apply internet filters to restrict their children's access to content they deem inappropriate for their age.
Age verification systems requiring people to provide credit card information depend on an assumption that the vast majority of credit card holders are adults, because U.S. credit card companies did not originally issue cards to minors. Additionally, a minor may still attempt to obtain their parent's credit card information, or persuade or defraud users into divulging their credit card number to an individual to use for their own purposes, defeating the stated purpose of the system.
In 2005, Salvatore LoCascio pleaded guilty to charges of credit card fraud; one of his schemes had involved using credit card-based age verification systems to charge users for "free" tours of adult entertainment websites.
Aylo, a major operator of porn websites, operates an age verification provider known as AgeID. First introduced in Germany in 2015, it uses third-party providers to authenticate the user's age, and a single sign-on model that allows the verified identity to be shared across any participating website.
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Age verification system
An age verification system, also known as an age gate, is any technical system that externally verifies a person's age. These systems are used primarily to restrict access to content classified, either voluntarily or by local laws, as being inappropriate for users under a specific age, such as alcohol, tobacco, gambling, video games with objectionable content, pornography, or to remain in compliance with internet privacy laws that regulate the collection of personal information from minors, such as COPPA in the United States. Age verification systems have been criticized for privacy and computer security risks.
Age verification substantially increased in 2023–2024, with the passage of the Online Safety Act 2023 in the UK, a law in France, laws in eight U.S. states including Texas and Utah, and proposals at the federal level in the US, Canada, Denmark, and the EU.
Online age verification is distinct from mandatory online identity registration in some countries with authoritarian tendencies.
The most basic form of age verification is to require a person to input their date of birth on a form. However, this depends on an honor system that assumes the honesty of the end user. The person may, for instance, be a minor who fraudulently inserts a valid date that meets the age criteria, rather than their own. For this reason the system has been described as ineffective.
Parental controls enable parents to apply internet filters to restrict their children's access to content they deem inappropriate for their age.
Age verification systems requiring people to provide credit card information depend on an assumption that the vast majority of credit card holders are adults, because U.S. credit card companies did not originally issue cards to minors. Additionally, a minor may still attempt to obtain their parent's credit card information, or persuade or defraud users into divulging their credit card number to an individual to use for their own purposes, defeating the stated purpose of the system.
In 2005, Salvatore LoCascio pleaded guilty to charges of credit card fraud; one of his schemes had involved using credit card-based age verification systems to charge users for "free" tours of adult entertainment websites.
Aylo, a major operator of porn websites, operates an age verification provider known as AgeID. First introduced in Germany in 2015, it uses third-party providers to authenticate the user's age, and a single sign-on model that allows the verified identity to be shared across any participating website.