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Age verification doesn’t work

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134 points salutis | 4 comments | 05 Sep 25 06:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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ngruhn ◴[05 Sep 25 07:04 UTC] No.45135753[source]▶
Google can probably infer what I had for breakfast from the way I move the cursor. Can't we have ID-less age verification somehow? Sure, it won't be 100% accurate but keeping out 90% of the kids is a win.
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1. modernerd ◴[05 Sep 25 07:12 UTC] No.45135804[source]▶
Google launched ID-less age approximation in July in the US:

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/age-assurance...

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2. ngruhn ◴[05 Sep 25 07:18 UTC] No.45135840[source]▶
Amazing, that's exactly what I had in mind.
3. jolmg ◴[05 Sep 25 07:31 UTC] No.45135921[source]▶
> Age verification: If we incorrectly estimate a user to be under 18, the user has the option to correct their age, including by uploading a photo of their government ID or a selfie.

Hopefully false positives won't be set high and this abused as an excuse to obtain sensitive personal information on their users.

4. UncleMeat ◴[06 Sep 25 15:32 UTC] No.45150181[source]▶
And kids rapidly realized that watching a few videos on taxes would bump them into the adult category.