Canadian Digital Standards Group Wants Biometric Age Verification
A new proposal by a digital standards governance body in Canada calls for age verification on adult websites via biometrics.
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A new proposal by a digital standards governance body in Canada calls for age verification on adult websites via biometrics.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyA few weeks ago, I went on the Advisory Opinions podcast to convince New York Times columnist (and constitutional lawyer) David French that his ideas about protecting kids from online porn by mandating age verification couldn’t survive constitutional scrutiny. In the interim, a federal district court in Texas enjoined just such a law in Free Speech Coalition v. Colmenero, finding it likely unconstitutional.Nevertheless, French has per
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