Age verification laws do not make us safer

The advocates of enforced age verification promise safe and secure technologies that protect user privacy.Age verification mechanisms have, they insist, developed sufficiently, users need not fear, and skeptics’ arguments are relics of a bygone time. The newest security protocols, they argue, have rendered the privacy and cybersecurity concerns once attached to age verification outdated.But promises of what can, theoretically, be done by public policy often founder when implemented — when practi...