Some age verification systems are no match for enterprising children, who have found that drawing on a fake mustache with a makeup pencil is enough to skirt the blocks of adult websites. U.K.-based nonprofit Internet Matters surveyed a thousand children about age verification checks online, and about half said that age checks were easy to bypass. “Children demonstrated a clear awareness of how to bypass age checks, either through their own experiences or by hearing about methods from othe…
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