10/8/2026
The Chart Room Ā· books-fiction
When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information
Filed by Dana Graviton
This post was co-authored by Sheila B. Lalwani, a doctorate student and recentĀ COMPASS Fellow hosted by EFF.
Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.
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