IS AGE VERIFICATION A TRAP?

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Age-verification laws create an age-verification trap by having platforms implement intrusive data collection practices that undermine user privacy. To prove compliance, platforms must gather and indefinitely store sensitive personal data, including government IDs, biometric scans, and behavioral logs. This data retention directly conflicts with modern privacy laws, which advocate for collecting only necessary data for defined purposes and storing it minimally.