Age Verification - Revision history

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 Opponents argue that mandatory, large-scale age verification will lead to the destruction of the web as we know it by eroding user privacy and anonymity, stifling free expression, and creating a less accessible, less competitive, and less secure internet. While intended to protect minors, critics warn the systems would create more problems than they solve for all users.
-Threat to user privacy and anonymity
+* Threat to user privacy and anonymity
-Massive data honeypots: Verification would require sites to collect sensitive personal data, such as government-issued IDs, facial scans, or financial information, from all users. This would create enormous "honeypots" of data, making users highly vulnerable to data breaches, identity theft, and government surveillance.
+* Massive data honeypots: Verification would require sites to collect sensitive personal data, such as government-issued IDs, facial scans, or financial information, from all users. This would create enormous "honeypots" of data, making users highly vulnerable to data breaches, identity theft, and government surveillance.
-Loss of anonymity: Mandatory age checks eliminate anonymous access to online information and services, which is essential for sensitive topics. This affects marginalized communities, including LGBTQ+ people, sex workers, and abuse victims, who rely on online anonymity to seek information and community safely.
+* Loss of anonymity: Mandatory age checks eliminate anonymous access to online information and services, which is essential for sensitive topics. This affects marginalized communities, including LGBTQ+ people, sex workers, and abuse victims, who rely on online anonymity to seek information and community safely.
 Data tracking: Even with privacy-preserving technologies like Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), concerns remain over how third-party verification companies would prevent tracking of users' online activities.
 Erosion of free expression
-Chilling effect: The fear of being surveilled or exposed could deter adults from accessing legal content, suppressing free expression and online speech. People may feel afraid to look up information related to reproductive health or other sensitive subjects for fear of creating a permanent paper trail.
+*Chilling effect: The fear of being surveilled or exposed could deter adults from accessing legal content, suppressing free expression and online speech. People may feel afraid to look up information related to reproductive health or other sensitive subjects for fear of creating a permanent paper trail.
-Over-restriction of content: Websites may choose to broadly restrict content for all ages to avoid legal liability, rather than risking non-compliance. This would lead to a more censored and homogenized internet, where diverse or edgy content is removed entirely.
+*Over-restriction of content: Websites may choose to broadly restrict content for all ages to avoid legal liability, rather than risking non-compliance. This would lead to a more censored and homogenized internet, where diverse or edgy content is removed entirely.
 Disproportionate burden on small creators: The high cost of implementing age verification technology would be prohibitive for independent websites, small businesses, and individual creators. Only large, well-resourced corporations could afford compliance, potentially eliminating the independent web and consolidating control among tech giants.
 Reduced accessibility and increased insecurity

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 ===Web Site Access===
 The original purpose of the world wide web was to make content available to all with out censorship. Advocates like John Perry Barlow wanted the web to created like a [[Common Good]] not subject to the sort of enclosure that lead to the economic [[Great Transformation]] (qv).
 ===Not like other ID standards===

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 ==Problems==
 ===Web Site Access===
-The original purpose of the world wide web was to make content available to all with out censorship. Advocates like John Perry Barlow wanted the web to created like a [[Common Good]] not subject to the sort of enclosure that lead to the economic [[Great Trans]].
+The original purpose of the world wide web was to make content available to all with out censorship. Advocates like John Perry Barlow wanted the web to created like a [[Common Good]] not subject to the sort of enclosure that lead to the economic [[Great Transformation]] (qv).
 ===Not like other ID standards===
 -10-04 [https://www.biometricupdate.com/202410/the-eudi-wallet-was-not-meant-for-age-assurance-avpa The EUDI Wallet was not meant for age assurance: AVPA]

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 ==Definition==
 Use of digital certificates to prove age for access to age restricted resources or products.
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 ==Context==
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 * [https://www.linkedin.com/company/age-verification-providers-association/ Age Verification Providers Association] Maintaining high standards in age verification
 * Use of [[Mobile Driver's License Presentation]] for [[Age Verification]] f[https://www.mdlconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/FINAL-Accept-mDL-Use-Cases-for-Age-Verification-for-Alcohol-Purchase.pdf ocuses on existing use cases]
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 ==Problems==
 ===Web Site Access===
-The original purpose of the world wide web was to make content available to all with out censorship.
+The original purpose of the world wide web was to make content available to all with out censorship. Advocates like John Perry Barlow wanted the web to created like a [[Common Good]] not subject to the sort of enclosure that lead to the economic [[Great Trans]].
 ===Not like other ID standards===
 -10-04 [https://www.biometricupdate.com/202410/the-eudi-wallet-was-not-meant-for-age-assurance-avpa The EUDI Wallet was not meant for age assurance: AVPA]

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 ==Problems==
 ===Not like other ID standards===
 -10-04 [https://www.biometricupdate.com/202410/the-eudi-wallet-was-not-meant-for-age-assurance-avpa The EUDI Wallet was not meant for age assurance: AVPA]

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 * [https://www.linkedin.com/company/age-verification-providers-association/ Age Verification Providers Association] Maintaining high standards in age verification
-* Use of [[Mobile Driver's License Presentation]] for [[Age Verification]] focuses on existing use cases
+* Use of [[Mobile Driver's License Presentation]] for [[Age Verification]] f[https://www.mdlconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/FINAL-Accept-mDL-Use-Cases-for-Age-Verification-for-Alcohol-Purchase.pdf ocuses on existing use cases]
 * decalogue-principles-age-verification-minors-protection.pdf (aepd.es)
 * https://www.aepd.es/guides/decalogue-principles-age-verification-minors-protection.pdf

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	==Problems==		==Problems==
		+	===Not like other ID standards===
		+	2024-10-04 [https://www.biometricupdate.com/202410/the-eudi-wallet-was-not-meant-for-age-assurance-avpa The EUDI Wallet was not meant for age assurance: AVPA]
		+	===legal trouble===
	It is typically the sales personnel and the shop owner that are penalized if the [[Age Verification]] fails:		It is typically the sales personnel and the shop owner that are penalized if the [[Age Verification]] fails:

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 ==Solutions==
 * 2024-10 The AVPA responds to Drew Harwell’s article in the Washington Post. https://avpassociation.com/news-release/the-avpa-responds-to-drew-harwells-article-in-the-washington-post/
 * 2024-05 IEEE 2089.1 Standard for Online Age Verification was published in May 2024, the result of over two years of deliberation by a working group of industry experts from around the world. Which costs $77 just to even read. Unclear how a threat model would be possible.
 * https://events.ringcentral.com/events/global-age-assurance-standards-summit/registration