# Age verification

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> Published: 2026-09-19 17:42:11+00:00

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|  | ===Inaccuracy=== |  | ===Inaccuracy=== | 
|  | Research on age verification software that estimates age via face scans are often inaccurate, identifying children as adults or vice versa.<ref>{{Cite journal \|last=Ganel \|first=Tzvi \|date=2022-12-29 \|title=Biases in human perception of facial age are present and more exaggerated in current AI technology \|url=https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-27009-w \|journal=Nature \|volume=12 \|issue=1 \|pages=22519 \|via=Springer Nature}}</ref> These inaccurate estimations could lead to have to use more privacy-invasive methods like submitting a picture of a personal ID. |  | Research on age verification software that estimates age via face scans are often inaccurate, identifying children as adults or vice versa.<ref>{{Cite journal \|last=Ganel \|first=Tzvi \|date=2022-12-29 \|title=Biases in human perception of facial age are present and more exaggerated in current AI technology \|url=https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-27009-w \|journal=Nature \|volume=12 \|issue=1 \|pages=22519 \|via=Springer Nature\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260131233956/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-27009-w\|archive-date=2026-01-31}}</ref> These inaccurate estimations could lead to have to use more privacy-invasive methods like submitting a picture of a personal ID. | 
|  | ===Effectiveness=== |  | ===Effectiveness=== | 
|  | Enforcement of the Online Safety Act or similar legislations worldwide are often ineffective as many users can reach to VPNs and other methods in order to protect their privacy online.<ref>{{Cite journal \|last=Jarvie \|first=Chelsea \|date= \|title=Online Age Verification: Government Legislation, Supplier Responsibilization, and Public Perceptions \|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11429505/ \|journal=PubMed Central \|volume=11 \|issue=9 \|pages=1068 \|via=National Library of Medicine}}</ref> E.g. children could trivially use or ask for their parents' IDs or credit cards to be falsely identified as an adult, and access restricted content. |  | Enforcement of the Online Safety Act or similar legislations worldwide are often ineffective as many users can reach to VPNs and other methods in order to protect their privacy online.<ref>{{Cite journal \|last=Jarvie \|first=Chelsea \|date= \|title=Online Age Verification: Government Legislation, Supplier Responsibilization, and Public Perceptions \|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11429505/ \|journal=PubMed Central \|volume=11 \|issue=9 \|pages=1068 \|via=National Library of Medicine\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260607184243/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11429505/\|archive-date=2026-06-07}}</ref> E.g. children could trivially use or ask for their parents' IDs or credit cards to be falsely identified as an adult, and access restricted content. | 
|  | ===Limitation of control over owned devices=== |  | ===Limitation of control over owned devices=== |