It seems that the new age to verify age that requires thousands of websites to confirm that thousands of websites confirm the age of users through government ID or face scanning.
Adult sites that followed the law have seen a sharp decline in traffic, while the one that ignored it has seen a huge increase in visitors. According to Washington Post analysis, some platforms that are not in August reportedly even doubled or tripled their audience compared to the same time last year.
US legislators of eyes similar to measures
Federal and state lawmakers in the United States are considering enforcing similar laws, not only for adult content, but also for social networks and video sites. Fans, including the American Senator Mika Lee, claim that limiting access to these sites by means of technology could “stop those who benefit from theft of American youth”.
The law of the United Kingdom and its unexpected results
According to the Law on Online Security in the UK, thousands of websites, especially pornographic sites, are required to verify the age of users. Many websites that complied have seen a drastic decline in the operation of British users.
According to John Scott-Railton, a research worker of a civic laboratory at the University of Toronto, people have brought people to the corners of the site, and therefore “rewarded the sites themselves that mock their rules”.
In the US, 25 states have adopted laws requiring age verification for adult websites since 2022, although many of them are questioned in court.
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Laws like Ohio State Reply Demetria said they said “Clicking on the field says” Yes, I am 18 “, I will not prevent a 15 -year -old boy to go on this site.”
However, critics, including the groups of Civil Freedoms, warn that such laws are the main risks of privacy because adults and children require to give sensitive personal data to third -party suppliers. This data could be vulnerable to violation or abuse, as seen in the case of dating dating, which after a cyber attack revealed thousands of female selfies and driving photos.
The financial burden of these laws
The financial costs of implementing age verification systems are another significant challenge. Companies trying to comply with the law must pay private suppliers such as Yoti, and Indiction for verification checks that can quickly become expensive.
For example, Judge Indiana has estimated that Pornhub may face potential accusations of more than $ 13 million a day. The Yoti representative said that last year the company usually charges 10 to 25 cents to scan the face.
These costs are not limited to large technology companies. According to The Washington Post, adherence to these laws is unduly difficult for small platforms.
Problems with facial scanning to verify age
The impact of the law exceeds pornographic content. In the UK, services such as Spotify, X (formerly Twitter), Discord, Telegram and Reddit began to control the age of some users through measures such as facial scanning. Activists are afraid that this could lead to a “censorship movement” that can “get huge parts of the Internet”.
The technology itself is far from perfect. Skins of face can sometimes incorrectly classify users, as can be seen when a 25 -year -old woman with a dwarf was falsely marked as a child and forbade tiktok. In addition, these systems can be deceived, and the wizards show how to circumvent them using the face of video game characters.
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“It’s much more complicated than showing your ID before entering the pub,” said Aliya Bhatia, a policy analyst at the Center for Democracy and Technology.
She said the British law “is based on two false ideas: that there is a silver bullet-intensive, respecting rights, an affordable way to verify the age of online-and that users do not care about their rights and privacy”.
The United Kingdom attempt to enforce the law also unintentionally promoted the methods to familiarize about the verification process.
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Overvoltage in Download VPN after British law
The United Kingdom’s efforts to enforce the law also inadvertently promoted solutions, such as the high number of Downloads.
When Peter Kyle, a member of the Parliament and the State Secretary of the British Government for Science, Innovation and Technology, warned users of using VPN to deceive the system, downloading VPN applications rose to the top of the downloads in the application in the country.
As Washington Post said, the report was accepted, but probably not as the government intended, and provided the DPN industry “the worst free advertising ever received”.
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