The Practical and Legal Complexities of Online Age Verification

Privacy laws meant to protect children from online harms have become popular in recent years, but they raise a host of First Amendment and privacy questions and pose technological feasibility issues. Philip N. Yannella, Gregory Szewczyk, Timothy W. Dickens, and Emily S. Klode wrote a piece for The Cybersecurity Law Report to provide a comprehensive overview of online age verification, its positives, and its drawbacks.

All four co-authors are members of Ballard Spahr's Privacy and Data Security team.

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