{"id":259663,"date":"2026-05-30T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/new-concerns-raised-about-age-verification-used-by-playstation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:10:11","slug":"new-concerns-raised-about-age-verification-used-by-playstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/new-concerns-raised-about-age-verification-used-by-playstation\/","title":{"rendered":"New Concerns Raised About Age Verification Used By PlayStation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/new-report-suggests-age-verification-service-used-by-playstation-and-meta-is-a-privacy-mess-2000700789\">New Concerns Raised About Age Verification Used By PlayStation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/new-report-suggests-age-verification-service-used-by-playstation-and-meta-is-a-privacy-mess-2000700789\">https:\/\/kotaku.com\/new-report-suggests-age-verification-service-used-by-playstation-and-meta-is-a-privacy-mess-2000700789<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 12:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"kotaku.com\">kotaku.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoti, the Age Verification software used by \u201c60 percent\u201d of websites and services that require age verification, including PlayStation, Meta, and TikTok, reportedly \u201ccollects significant private information beyond what is strictly necessary to verify age\u201d and even shares said information with \u201cseveral less user-visible fourth parties,\u201d according to a report from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As spotted by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Futurity<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the report, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">titled<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cPapers, Please: A First Look at Age Verification on the Web,\u201d was recently presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy conference on May 18, states that Yoti\u2019s data collection methods \u201cpaint a concerning picture of privacy and effectiveness of age verification.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the report, Yoti\u2019s age verification software \u201ccollects a significant amount of high-resolution data about the user\u2019s device\u201d during its checks, even though said information does not appear to be \u201cnecessary in estimating the age of a user.\u201d This specifically includes information gathered from the device during the age verification process, such as \u201cOS version strings, available RAM, connection type, and CPU architecture.\u201d The report also states that the \u201cuniquely identifiable\u201d information could be used to allow for \u201cunpermissioned tracking of the user\u2019s device.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the most worrying discovery is \u201cthat Yoti relies on sharing sensitive user information with several less user-visible fourth parties,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">including the payment processor Stripe<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The paper notes that Stripe \u201ccollects significant telemetry that could likely be used to uniquely identify a device,\u201d which includes information scraped from the first-party website used to verify user\u2019s age via Yoti\u2019s software: \u201cWe find that the service collects significant private information beyond what is strictly necessary to verify age, including high-entropy browser and&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/new-report-suggests-age-verification-service-used-by-playstation-and-meta-is-a-privacy-mess-2000700789\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Concerns Raised About Age Verification Used By PlayStation https:\/\/kotaku.com\/new-report-suggests-age-verification-service-used-by-playstation-and-meta-is-a-privacy-mess-2000700789 Publish Date: 2026-05-30 12:04:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/c00c0f69c36bb3d58146a55288c98310.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-259663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy","tag-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259665,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259663\/revisions\/259665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}