# Why age verification misses the mark and puts everyone at risk

- Type: News
- Source: European Digital Rights
- Date: 2025-11-25
- Original: https://edri.org/our-work/why-age-verification-misses-the-mark-and-puts-everyone-at-risk/
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/49194
- Topics: AI and Machine Learning

## Summary

Age verification is a short-sighted, ineffective and dangerous way to protect young people form online harms. It is disproportionate when better alternatives are available, straightforward and rewarding to circumvent, and structurally impacts more people than it aims to protect.

## Full text

Age verification is a short-sighted, ineffective and dangerous way to protect young people form online harms. It is disproportionate when better alternatives are available, straightforward and rewarding to circumvent, and structurally impacts more people than it aims to protect.

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