This reading list includes a selection of recommended blogs, articles, and materials from external organizations, designed to deepen your understanding and expand your knowledge on age verification. These resources complement the content shared in this hub and offers diverse perspectives and expert insights:
Basics:
- Woodhull Freedom Foundation: Fact Checked - Age Verification
- Free Speech Coalition: Age Verification Bill Tracker
- Manshuya Foundation: Statement on Age Gating
- IAPP: Mind the gap: Understanding age verification and assurance
- Fight For the Future: StopOnlineIDChecks.org
- EFF: “Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms”
- EFF: “Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance”
- MonkeyExplains on YouTube: “Discord’s Data Breach in 11 Minutes & 56 Seconds”
Further Reading:
- Eric Goldman, Stanford Technology Law Review: “The "Segregate-and-Suppress" Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online”
- Steven M. Bellovin, Georgetown University Institute of Technology Law & Policy: “Privacy-Preserving Age Verification—And Its Limitations”
- Open Rights Group: Age Verification Facts
- Collaborative Research Center for Resilience: Public Infrastructure, Technology and Democracy page
- Ella Dorn, New Statesman: "Big Tech is the only winner of the Online Safety Act"
- Jasmine Mithani, 19th news: “Age Verification on Porn Sites is Putting Queer Adult Industry Workers at Risk”
- Center for Democracy & Technology: “Teen and Parent Perspectives on Approaches to Age Verification”
- Sunday Times: “Online Clampdown Puts Sites Like Mine at Agitators’ Mercy”
- Taylor Lorenz, UserMag: “We Must Fight Age Verification With All We Have”
- Jon Severs, TES Magazine: “Is Jonathan Haidt Right About Smartphones?”
- Sarah Scheffler, Communications of the ACM: “Age Verification Systems Will Be a Personal Identifiable Information Nightmare,”
- New America: “Challenges with Age Verification”
- Shawn Musgrave, Intercept: “Project 2025 Co-Author Caught Admitting the Secret Conservative Plan to Ban Porn”
- Cory Doctorow, Medium: “‘Privacy preserving age verification’ is Bullshit”
- Adi Robertson, Verge: “The Right to Anonymity is Powerful, and America Is Destroying It”
- Dia Kayyali & Jasmine Mithani, Tech Policy Press: “Age Verification Is Locking Trans People Out of the Internet”
