Age verification: Difference between revisions
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Youngtek Solutions Ltd<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-11 |title=Investigation into Youngtek Solutions Ltd’s compliance with the duty to prevent children from encountering pornographic content through the use of age assurance |url=https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/investigation-into-youngtek-solutions-ltds-compliance-with-the-duty-to-prevent-children-from-encountering-pornographic-content-through-the-use-of-age-assurance |url-status=live |website=[[Ofcom]]}}</ref> | Youngtek Solutions Ltd<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-11 |title=Investigation into Youngtek Solutions Ltd’s compliance with the duty to prevent children from encountering pornographic content through the use of age assurance |url=https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/investigation-into-youngtek-solutions-ltds-compliance-with-the-duty-to-prevent-children-from-encountering-pornographic-content-through-the-use-of-age-assurance |url-status=live |website=[[Ofcom]]}}</ref> | ||
===Customer Profiling=== | ===Customer Profiling=== | ||
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Platforms already experience major losses and consumer distrust from data breaches that reveal information less sensitive than government-issued IDs or biometric data.<ref name=":1" /> A data breach involving information this sensitive will seriously damage a business, and the users even more so. As stated previously, users who foresee these privacy risks will turn away from platforms which implement the policy, and towards niche platforms. | Platforms already experience major losses and consumer distrust from data breaches that reveal information less sensitive than government-issued IDs or biometric data.<ref name=":1" /> A data breach involving information this sensitive will seriously damage a business, and the users even more so. As stated previously, users who foresee these privacy risks will turn away from platforms which implement the policy, and towards niche platforms. | ||
===Inaccuracy=== | |||
Researches about age verification software that estimates afe via face scans are innacurate, identifying children as adults or vice versa.{{Citation needed}} | |||
==Examples== | ==Examples== | ||