Age verification

Research published in Nature on December 29, 2022 found that AI age-verification software using facial scans is often inaccurate, misidentifying children as adults or vice versa, according to the study by Tzvi Ganel. A separate study by Chelsea Jarvie in PubMed Central (volume 11, issue 9, page 1068) found enforcement of the Online Safety Act and similar legislation worldwide is often ineffective because users can reach VPNs, and children can trivially use parents' IDs or credit cards to be falsely identified as adults. The inaccuracies could push platforms toward more privacy-invasive methods such as submitting a picture of a personal ID.

addition of archived links | ← Older revision | | Revision as of 17:42, 19 September 2026 | | | Line 66: | | Line 66: | | | | ===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=== |