Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’

Age verification is currently gaining traction among some western democracies as a means to restrict minors’ access to online pornography. In this article we consider the ramifications of applying age estimation software to this task. We analyse a public dataset of 10,139 facial images processed thr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zahra Stardust, Abdul Obeid, Alan McKee, Daniel Angus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2024-06-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241252129