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I'm at risk of saying something very ill informed here but my gut feeling is the difficulty lies in linking the person who is currently accessing the service wi
by pmg101 2y ago
I'm at risk of saying something very ill informed here but my gut feeling is the difficulty lies in linking the person who is currently accessing the service with the person who did the age check.
Taking your example: people may have multiple Google accounts. And one Google account could be shared between multiple people (inadvisedly, obviously, but lots of real users do things like this).
- greatgib 2y agoSame idea but I would not say it like you: - social network site will ask Google if the use is old enough with any random I'd that can be used to match Google response. - but Google will now have a record of your Google account requesting age verification to access a social network / porn website... - also, if anyone can open a Google account with the name John doe, the age verification will not have any sense. - so Google will be required to check your identity, and so will require a government issued id in the end. You can say that Google will just rely on some other third party, like a bank or phone provider, but in the end of a chain there will still be the gov id to be used.