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The web wants your ID now. Most age checks leak the data they collect.
Mandatory age-verification laws are turning the open internet into a checkpoint. Here's what the UK, EU, and US states actually require, and why the methods leak.

Mandatory age-verification laws are turning the open internet into a checkpoint. Here's what the UK, EU, and US states actually require, and why the methods leak.

An EU Parliament briefing and Executive VP Henna Virkkunen both flagged VPN circumvention of age verification. The UK's attempt to solve it backfired into record VPN adoption.