We're in the middle of a couple of moral panics right now and one of them is centered on allowing minors access to social media.
Discord is the latest app to implement age verification requirements to allow full access to the app's functionality.
One problem with this is that different jurisdictions have such different protocols they require app publishers to follow. The UK has one, the EU is fixing to roll out a different one, and the various US states that have passed legislation... I'm not sure how many that is, but I know it's into double digits ...all have their own.
Some require the data collected, usually face scans or ID scans, to be deleted, while others require it to be stored. There are third party providers popping up with varying degrees of legit-ness and sincerity regarding data security. It's all a mess and it's based on something that's about as scientific as the love child of The Salem Witch Trials and Blackboard Jungle.
Add in VPNs and the fact that IP location has an error rate of at least 5% trying to figure out what state a user is in, and this is all just pushing rope uphill for no good reason.
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