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Age Verification Blocks Could Limit Access to Certain Online Content

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by WIRED.

An increasing number of states and countries are passing age-verification laws. It’s not clear how they’ll work.

"The concerns about young people accessing adult websites are real and widespread; less widespread is the understanding of limitations of various age-verification tools, and of the new dangers they might pose,” says Irina Raicu, director of the Internet Ethics Program at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center. “Many regulators and others seem to think of age verification as a solved problem; technologists and privacy activists, including activists focused on protecting children, are trying to explain that’s not the case.”

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by WIRED.

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