"Email-based age assurance" has been deemed to be (capable of being) "highly effective" under the UK's #OnlineSafetyAct
Annoyingly, this means data sharing and only works if someone uses the same email address with multiple third parties.
My email address is well above the age of majority in the UK, but surely "Neil likes to reply in-line and signs email with GPG" is a good enough indication of grey-beardedness anyway.
Of course not.
(drifts off into Ofcom reverie...)
If only everything could be email again.
Like in the good old days.
None of this nasty app stuff.
Or that terrible social media, whatever it is.
You knew where you were with email.
It was reliable and trustworthy.
I used to get several emails every day...
The widow of the late General Sani Abacha.
Winning the Green Card Lottery.
There was nothing quite like it.
I replied to every single one.
> I don't see how email tells you anything
Leaving aside spoofability (which I presume a provider should be verifying by checking that the user can receive an email at the given address), the gist is that the email-based age assurance provider checks with a third party (e.g. a bank) who has already done age/ID assurance of the user.
> Annoyingly, this ... only works if someone uses the same email address with multiple third parties
Indeed :)
But as someone who tends to use unique emails, that wouldn't work.
OTOH a child with access to the family PC could easily 'prove' access to the parents email..
Buuuuut, we all know it won’t be done like that. It’ll be done in whatever way collects the most data and extracts the most value from customer information.
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