There are age checks on sites that market alcohol - you're quite often asked to confirm that you are of legal drinking age in your country or enter a date of birth. It's very easy to bypass so one wonders what effect they have on reducing under age drinking.
Similarly, you can be under 13 and still sign up for an Instagram account by lying about your age - it's just a yes/no answer to "are you over 13" IIRC.
What is lacking is how the requirement is expected to be implemented. If it's like age checks on sites selling alcohol then it's not going to make a blind bit of difference. If the checks are more in depth then there is a potential privacy issue but it shouldn't be difficult to have an official means of independently validating your age and that system passing a yes/no token to the target site without sharing any PII.
Similarly, you can be under 13 and still sign up for an Instagram account by lying about your age - it's just a yes/no answer to "are you over 13" IIRC.
What is lacking is how the requirement is expected to be implemented. If it's like age checks on sites selling alcohol then it's not going to make a blind bit of difference. If the checks are more in depth then there is a potential privacy issue but it shouldn't be difficult to have an official means of independently validating your age and that system passing a yes/no token to the target site without sharing any PII.
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