Apple führt weltweit Altersverifizierungstools ein, um der wachsenden Zahl von Kindersicherheitsgesetzen nachzukommen | TechCrunch

>In Brazil, for example, developers can use the Declared Age Range API to obtain the user’s age category, if the user or their parent or guardian chooses to share it.

I’m not against that at all. The tooling to report age ranges isn’t a problem. If it’s just the parents opting their children’s devices / connections into a child mode, great. We should make it simple for parents to do that without having to become a sysadmin.

Sadly a lot of laws in other places aren’t pushing for parents to be the source of truth about their kid’s age and are instead trying to trample privacy for everyone including adults. That’s the problem.

IETF should create a set of content type status codes, like http status codes. Then govts can have device companies implement parental controls that can take advantage of those codes to block content, on consumer devices and network devices.

Then it’ll be up to parents to do the work to protect their kids.

Companies and governments are lying like crazy about “age verification”.

Connecting your ID to your online activities is priceless information for authoritarian states and companies alike

I can see the following already in the future:“get them here, buy your age verification tokens here! Now 18+ tokens available directly from our site. Single payment, no access is no pay“