-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ NNSquad ] Verifying Ages Online Is a Daunting Task, Even for Experts Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:22:57 -0700 From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org Verifying Ages Online Is a Daunting Task, Even for Experts http://j.mp/MfX37L (New York Times) "Just how hard can it be to verify the age of a person online? After all, privacy experts have been complaining for years about how much advertisers know about people who use the Internet. The answer, it turns out, is very hard." - - - And even if you establish a Big Brother database and force everyone to use biometric IDs all the time -- people will still find ways to evade the systems, en masse. The bottom line: It may not be immortality, but in key ways and from a practical standpoint we're all ageless on the Internet. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad