Your #Vape Wants to Know How Old You Are

https://www.wired.com/story/your-vape-wants-to-know-how-old-you-are/

#privacy #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification

#Apple Requires Device-Level #AgeVerification in the #UK Now. Could the #US Be Next?

https://gizmodo.com/apple-requires-device-level-age-verification-in-the-uk-now-could-the-us-be-next-2000738481

#privacy #cybersecurity #IdentityVerification #politics #SocialMediaBan #SocialMedia #iPhone #iOS

Inside the #Systemd #AgeVerification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

https://itsfoss.com/dylan-taylor-systemd-controversy/

#privacy #FOSS #doxxing #IdentityVerification #Linux

#Austria becomes latest to propose #SocialMediaBan for children

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyv70de9exo

#privacy #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification #SocialMedia

Information Fusion: Privacy-aware detection of fake identity documents: methodology, benchmark, and improved algorithms (FakeIDet2) . “Researchers are now trying to develop methods to detect an ever-growing number of these AI-based fakes that are almost indistinguishable from authentic (bona fide) IDs. In this counterattack effort, researchers are faced with an important challenge: the […]

The Age Verification Con

How Big Tech and politicians built a digital ID system for everyone while pretending to fight each other.

by Al Loxley

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-age-verification-con

#ageVerification #identityVerification

#Apple begins age checks in the #UK with latest #iOS update

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/apple-begins-age-checks-in-the-uk-with-latest-ios-update/

#AgeVerification #privacy #cybersecurity #politics #IdentityVerification

#Japan to require ID checks for data-only #SIM cards amid fraudulent use

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-to-require-id-checks-for-data-only-sim-cards-amid-fraudulent-use

#privacy #IdentityVerification

#Reddit is weighing #IdentityVerification methods to combat its #bot problem

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/reddit-is-weighing-identity-verification-methods-to-combat-its-bot-problem-195814671.html

#privacy #AgeVerification #SocialMedia

Engadget: Reddit is weighing identity verification methods to combat its bot problem. “According to Reddit’s CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to verify a user is human and not a bot. When asked by the TBPN podcast how to confirm that it’s a human using Reddit, Huffman responded with several verification methods with varying degrees of heavy-handedness.”