COPA Ruling & Age-Verification
Adam Thierer at the Progress and Freedom Foundation has been a blogging machine ever since he got his mitts on the federal court's ruling against the Child Online Protection Act handed down on Thursday morning. Read his posts here here and here.
One of his most interesting musings deals with the decision's implications for age-verification and social networking sites. Several state attorneys general are pushing proposals to mandate age checks for minors before they would be allowed access sites like MySpace and Facebook.
Thierer has a new paper called "Social Networking and Age Verification: Many Hard Questions; No Easy Solutions" if you want to read more about his detailed thoughts on the matter. He is also moderating a panel on Capitol Hill on Friday that will address the topic.
Scheduled speakers include Jay Chaudhuri, special counsel to North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper; John Cardillo, CEO of Sentinel Tech Holding, an online identification firm; Jeff Schmidt, CEO of Authis, which specializes in data security; Raye Croghan, vice president of IDology, an age verification provider; and Tim Lordan, who runs the Internet Education Foundation.
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