Mapping the spread of age-verification laws
Governments around the world are making age a condition for accessing certain parts of the internet. This page tracks where such laws are in force, where they are advancing, and how different countries are approaching the same policy goal.
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How can they just enforce this? I guess I know how they intend to, but I don’t trust these corporations to handle this properly and I sure as hell don’t think some governments will have citizen’s interests at heart, so whatever service they force into requiring me give my ID for, just won’t get me as a user. Or will lose me as one.
I’m prepared to go back to writing letters and sending scrapbooks. Screw them all.
Thing is, governments aren’t making age a condition; they’re making identity verification a condition. Age is just the excuse.
Least I can see where to point my VPN now! Thanks.
That escalated quickly. Bloody hell, almost all EU countries are working on this. My country opposes age verification, but will be forced to implement it once the EU also passes a similar law.
They missed Canada? Canada has a bill C-34 in the works which bans social media for under-16s and just happens to require everyone to submit their ID to non-Canadian corporations.
I would actually love Proton to spin up a service for age verification that actually does just that. Be it only to see how fast governments start complaining when they tell them they don’t have any data on their users…
What do you mean, you said all you cared about was making sure they are an adult. They are, it’s verified. Oh, was that not actually the point?
Really useful. Thank you!