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Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks (www.internetmatters.org)

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[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

did anyone actually read the pdf?

here is the wikipedia article about the organisation doing the "research". read their partners list and see if your conclusion changes

[–] Noja@sopuli.xyz 8 points 13 hours ago

Age checks are common and seen as easy to complete. About half of children (53%) say they have recently been asked to verify their age, most often when setting up new accounts. According to children, the following methods were described as easy: uploading a government ID document (88%), facial age estimation (89%) and using a third-party app (88%).

Wow, they are really teaching children to upload their government ID to random internet websites who ask for it. Identity theft heaven.