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Kids Don’t Have IDs And Age-Estimation Tech Is Frequently Very Wrong
Lawmakers continue to propose new bills that would require social media companies and app stores to segment users by age and obtain parental consent for minors. Laws like Utah’s new App Store …
Notably, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously to deny applications by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, Yoti, and SuperAwesome for use of a new verifiable parental consent mechanism under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule. Because most children don’t have government photo IDs, age-estimation technology is flawed, and SSNs can be used fraudulently (and because none of these methods establish familial relationships), all are useless for the purpose of verifying parental consent. Establishing familial relationships is important to verifying proper parental consent; in fact, the CRS explored the use of birth certificates for this purpose.
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