Age Verification: What countries require you to perform ID checks & for what websites and platforms?
Age verification as a method to protect children from harmful content has been around since the early 2000s, for instance to prevent children from accessing sites like Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube. But now, stricter age verification laws with advanced and privacy-infringing verification methods are being introduced, and could also apply to YouTube, X (Twitter), Reddit, Discord, and more. As Big Tech companies start implementing measures even before the laws are being passed, more than 370 scientists warn against ID checks and facial recognition as these could kill anonymity, enable unprecedented surveillance measures, and limit the freedom of the internet.