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More than 10 states have passed strict online age verification requirements on certain websites.
Lawsuits have challenged new laws in Arkansas , Texas , California , Louisiana , and Utah that require showing government-issued photo ID to verify age when accessing social media websites.
These laws effectively mandate the collection of an ID from all visitors to these websites.
They will be a security disaster, since all that ID information is a gold mine for identity thieves.
The difficulties with parental consent serve to illustrate why online ID-based age verification is not the solution to helping children its proponents want it to be.
Parental controls on devices, operating systems, networks, and routers already limit access to these websites.
Some of the age verification proposals go well beyond pornography and include social media.
Parental controls and safe searches already provide mechanisms to prevent viewing age-inappropriate content, and do so in a much more flexible and privacy-respecting way than heavy-handed ID verification. Online ID checking is a privacy and security disaster waiting to happen, and is not a practical approach to age verification. While I continue to look for ways to make the Web a safer place for children, widespread ID collection puts us all at risk—including the very minors these new laws are supposed to protect..
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