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App Store Age Verification: Popular in Principle, Unworkable in Practice

App Store Age Verification: Popular in Principle, Unworkable in Practice

2025-10-21  Ian Fleming

Both false positives and false negatives will be a major issue, with underage minors accessing content they aren’t supposed to while teens and adults above relevant age thresholds find themselves locked out of apps they should have access to. The alternative, providing a government-issued ID, runs into the serious problem that teens—and even many adults—lack the IDs these bills assume. Moreover, the mass collection of sensitive documents and biometrics creates a very tempting sensitive data target for bad actors and creates a huge centralized data breach risk.


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