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- Hundreds of academics from 29 countries, including 371 experts, urge governments to pause online age checks until privacy and security concerns are addressed.
- The open letter warns that current age-verification technologies are ineffective and could infringe on personal freedoms.
- France and Australia’s moves to restrict children’s social-media access raise concerns that global age verification would be hard to implement and could boost government surveillance.
