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25 percent of kids will face identity theft before turning 18. Age-verification laws will make this worse.
Lawmakers are proposing and enacting social media age-verification laws which will increase fraud risks by mandating that minors surrender their Social Security numbers and other… learn more ▸
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Searches for VPNs spike in Texas after Pornhub pulls out of the state
The four-fold rise in Google searches for tools that can circumvent the state-level blocking suggests the law may already be having unintended side effects. learn more ▸
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Online porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom
“Wherever U.S. lawmakers have imposed age verification on internet users trying to access adult content online over the past 12 months, there has been a… learn more ▸
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Age-Verification Laws are a Verified Mistake
“Online age-verification laws sacrifice privacy, free speech, and parental authority on the altar of good intentions.” learn more ▸
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Porn Ban—New Threat For iPhone, iPad, Android Users
The surge in VPN usage caused by age-verification laws carries serious security risks for users. learn more ▸
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Italian digital identity provider suffers data breach, 5.5M customers affected
A leading European certification authority and provider of digital identity services such as Italy’s SPID (Public Digital Identity System), InfoCert posted a public notice on… learn more ▸
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Age verification for pornography access? Our research shows it fails on many levels
“Published in Big Data and Society, our new study into one common facial age estimation tool shows such technologies are unreliable, and have a racial… learn more ▸
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The huge stakes in a new Supreme Court case about pornography
A helpful explainer of the issues at stake in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton and why the First Amendment would limit the government’s ability to… learn more ▸
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Censoring the internet won’t protect kids
KOSA is an internet-wide regulation, which effectively means that the only way to comply with the law is for platforms to verify ages. So adults… learn more ▸
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With age verification, lawmakers seek solutions for problems best handled by parents
A state law that seeks to monitor the internet is not the answer. Lawmakers should put their efforts into making sure parents have the resources… learn more ▸
