{"id":221260,"date":"2026-03-08T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/online-age-verification-tools-for-child-safety-are-surveilling-adults\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:55:10","slug":"online-age-verification-tools-for-child-safety-are-surveilling-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/online-age-verification-tools-for-child-safety-are-surveilling-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"},"content":{"rendered":"

Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/08\/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-08 10:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content, leading to backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates that a free and open internet is at stake. Roughly\u00a0half of U.S. states\u00a0have enacted or are advancing laws requiring platforms \u2014 including adult content sites, online gaming services,\u00a0and social media\u00a0apps\u00a0\u2014 to block underage users,\u00a0forcing\u00a0companies to screen everyone who approaches these digital gates. <\/p>\n

“There’s a big spectrum,” said Joe Kaufman, global head of privacy at\u00a0Jumio, one of the largest\u00a0digital identity-verification and authentication platforms.\u00a0He explained that the\u00a0patchwork of state laws\u00a0vary\u00a0in technical demands and compliance expectations.\u00a0“The regulations are moving in many different directions at once,” he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Social media company Discord announced plans in February to roll out mandatory age verification globally, which the company said would rely on verification methods designed so facial analysis occurs on a user’s device and submitted data would be deleted immediately. The proposal quickly drew backlash from users concerned about having to submit selfies or government IDs to access certain features, which led Discord to delay the launch until the second half of this year.<\/p>\n

“Let me be upfront: we knew this rollout was going to be controversial. Any time you introduce something that touches identity and verification, people are going to have strong feelings,” Discord chief technology officer and co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy wrote in a Feb. 24 blog post. <\/p>\n

Websites\u00a0offering adult content, gambling, or financial services often rely on full identity verification that requires scanning a government ID and matching it to a live image. But most of the verification systems powering these checkpoints \u2014 often run by specialized\u00a0identity-verification\u00a0vendors\u00a0on behalf of…<\/p>\n

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