Online Age Checks Create a Pointless Privacy Risk

New cybersecurity research indicates that one of the world’s leading age verification providers collects and shares highly sensitive personal data—including facial photos and device fingerprints—with third parties.

The research also reveals that most websites that require age verification don’t enforce the policy.

The findings come from a new paper that researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) will present at this week’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy conference in San Francisco.