Tag: age
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Weekly Update 480
Weekly Update 480 Well, I now have the answer to how Snapchat does age verification for under-16s: they give an underage kid the ability to change their date of birth, then do a facial scan to verify. The facial scan (a third party tells me…) allows someone well under 16 to pass it easily. So,…
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Weekly Update 433
Weekly Update 433 It sounds easy – “just verify people’s age before they access the service” – but whether we’re talking about porn in the US or Australia’s incoming social media laws, the reality is way more complex than that. There’s no unified approach across jurisdictions and even within a single country like Australia, the…