405: No, Internet Age Verification Has Not Been “Solved”

Eric Goldman (Santa Clara Law) discusses his new paper, “The ‘Segregate-and-Suppress’ Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online.”

Topics include:

• The many kinds of online age-verification law
• Age verification as an information problem
• Fancy tech as deus ex machina
• Data collection today; state surveillance tomorrow
• What about devices and app stores?
• The internet and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Child safety: it takes a village
• The parental consent nightmare

Links:

The “Segregate-and-Suppress” Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online

Age-Verification Laws Are a Verified Mistake

Tech Policy Podcast 354: Online Age Verification (Sucks)