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NEW: “LockAndCode” #AgeVerification Podcast by @Malwarebytes, featuring @AlecMuffett: “Identity crisis: How an anti-porn crusade could jam the Internet” — EXTENDED SHOW NOTES

I was delighted to be invited back to LockAndCode to speak about American lawmakers discovering “Age Verification” and to compare it to similar experiences in the UK.

There are some links in the podcast show notes, but I’ll attach below the extended set of links which I built to help David & the team:

Links & Timeline2016 – the initial “modern” AV discussions

A Sequence of Spankingly Bad Ideas (first article in the series, catalogue of variously-terrible AV methods including aggregation and AI analysis of social media profiles)

https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/a-sequence-of-spankingly-bad-ideas-483cecf4ba89

On the Digital Economy Bill (rewrite & expansion of the above, submitted as evidence to Parliament)

https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/on-the-digital-economy-bill-1df356862ac2

Restricting niche porn sites is a disaster for people with marginalised sexualities – Pandora Blake

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/23/niche-porn-sites-sex-spanking-website-videos-pornography

“Why you need to stop telling me you can get round a porn block” – Girl on the Net (The nerd culture of “I know how to use a VPN” allows censorship to creep up on us, unchecked…)

https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/get-round-a-porn-block/

PAS1296: Reviewing a draft of a proposed “security standard” for Age Verification (including stored data) and findint it very lacking; long twitter thread, some key points

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/788349545033961472
https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/788351109589045248 (tracking userids)
https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/788355102578966528 (wrong threat model)
https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/788359918738874368 (cryptography)

2018 – the debate continues / “traditional methods”

Adults might have to buy GBP 10 ‘porn passes’ to prove their age online (news report)

https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/13/adults-might-have-to-buy-10-porn-passes-from-newsagents-to-prove-their-age-online-7541873/

Data which “concerns a person’s sex life or sexual orientation” is cited for special treatment in the Data Protection Act

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1073538871093288960

Response to draft Guidance on Age-Verification Arrangements and draft Guidance on Ancillary Service Providers (legislators and purported standards do not appear to care deeply about AV data protection)

https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/response-to-draft-guidance-on-age-verification-arrangements-and-draft-guidance-on-ancillary-service-c04d988b14bb

Age Verification Enthusiasts: “It’s okay when it’s my kids creating a fake account”

Age Verification BBFC Data Protection Snake Oil

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1073521349413490693

2019 – First attempt at appointing a regulator, regulator proposes data protection standards

The BBFC AgeVerification “Certificate Standard” has been published. This is the document which is being proffered to protect the facts & details of YOUR online #Porn viewing. Let’s read it together! (long but fun twitter thread)

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1121717321565863936

Age verification won’t block porn. But it will spell the end of ethical porn – Girl on the Net

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/18/age-verification-block-porn-ethical-sites-sex

2021 – companies start to pitch “AI facial analysis” as somehow being “anonymous”

Notes on “Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?” (including: “Identities are Relationships”)

https://alecmuffett.com/article/14828

Subsequent Twitter discussion with Yoti staffers

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1449406161850183682

2023 – the USA and Age Verification

Jess Miers’ entire current timeline, but especially this thread:

https://twitter.com/jess_miers/status/1657089985692958720 (long thread)

Minnesota’s Attempt to Copy California’s Constitutionally Defective Age Appropriate Design Code is an Utter Fail | Eric Goldman

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/04/minnesotas-attempt-to-copy-californias-constitutionally-defective-age-appropriate-design-code-is-an-utter-fail-guest-blog-post.htm

Nationwide push to require social media age verification raises questions about privacy, industry standards | CyberScoop

https://cyberscoop.com/age-verfication-schatz-cotton-social-media/

Why Connecticut’s Age Verification Law Could be the Next Target for Constitutional Challenge | by Jess Miers | Chamber of Progress

https://medium.com/chamber-of-progress/why-connecticuts-age-verification-law-could-be-the-next-target-for-constitutional-challenge-467c376b5556

The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age Verification Legislation – R Street Institute

https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/the-fundamental-problems-with-social-media-age-verification-legislation/

Corporate Backstory

YouTube: Access age-restricted content & features – Google Account Help (manual redaction of personal info for YouTube Age Verification)

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/10071085#zippy=%2Cget-country-specific-guidance

“4 out 5 parents use no content filtering at all on their kids phones!”

https://twitter.com/mikestabile/status/1659221502758207498

Pornhub / Cherie DeVille: Utah / We Need Special Phones For Kids (…and of course the parents who don’t install content filters will somehow instead prevent them from buying burner phones?)

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/pornhub-utah-ban-porn-star-cherie-deville-age-verification-censorship-vpn-1234730996/

Age Verification, Credit-Card processing, etc, all leading to centralisation of adult content into corporate spaces

https://twitter.com/MsKateSinclaire/status/1658522415302086656

Reminder that MindGeek still exist, with 1300+ employees

https://www.linkedin.com/company/mindgeek/jobs/

Sample MindGeek Job: Corporate Security Analyst

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=3593947140
“In this role you will have access to multiple well-known and famous websites. Your job will be to actively monitor and maintain security of those systems. This position will enable you to master IAM.” (Identity & Access Management)

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