Government parenting? How do you enforce this without checking every user logon?

https://thenextweb.com/news/norway-social-media-ban-under-16-age-verification

Norway plans to ban social media for children under 16 and shift age verification liability to platforms

The minority Labour government, led by PM Jonas Gahr Støre, announced the legislation on Friday. The age threshold has been raised from the 15-year limit proposed in the 2025 consultation, aligning Norway with Australia’s world-first ban that came into force in December. Ireland is also considering similar legislation.

… The mechanism of the ban is as important as the age threshold. Under the proposed Norwegian legislation, social media companies, defined as platforms where users can create a profile, connect with other profiles, and share content without editorial oversight, will be required to implement effective age verification.

The burden of verifying age shifts from the child, who currently self-reports, to the platform. Norway’s existing digital identity infrastructure, BankID, is expected to play a role in the verification architecture. Platforms that fail to comply will face fines. The consultation draft proposed fines of up to NOK 20 million.

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https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/proton_ceo_age_checks_id_checkpoint/

Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO

… In a blog post on Thursday, Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, argues that the current push for age checks risks flipping the web from anonymous by default to something closer to "show your papers" before you click.

The problem, he says, is that you can't reliably identify minors without identifying everyone else first, meaning systems built to protect kids inevitably sweep up adults too. "We cannot accept a world where every adult is expected to hand over ID as the price of going online."

Trying to be human?

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-written-email-perfect-typos-new-chrome-plugin-2026-4

Now there's an AI tool that adds typos into your emails — so it looks like you didn't use AI