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more on Age Verification Technology
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:54:00 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:43:13 -0800 To: <dave () farber net> Cc: <lauren () vortex com> Subject: Re: [IP] more on Age Verification Technology Dave, Making the unlikely assumption that such technology would be widely accepted, I wonder how long it would be before: a) commercially-designed fake adult and child fingers were available aimed at fooling the systems and... b) instructions were floating around the Net on ways to construct your own There are a lot of bright kids under age 13 out there, including some who may be looking for a new hobby. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () pfir org or lauren () vortex com or lauren () privacyforum org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, Fact Squad - http://www.factsquad.org Co-Founder, URIICA - Union for Representative International Internet Cooperation and Analysis - http://www.uriica.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com - - -
------ Forwarded Message From: "Andy.Sullivan () reuters com" <Andy.Sullivan () reuters com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:22:19 -0500 To: <dave () farber net> Subject: [IP] more on Age Verification Technology Dave, for IP: I had a chance to kick the tires on this i-Mature technology last night at the Congressional Internet Caucus tech fair. It's a metal device that looks sort of like a vise or a minature lemon squeezer -- it measures a segment of your middle finger when you make a fist. It successfully identified me as over 18 years old. Shmuel Levin, the comany's president and CEO, demonstrated the device to me. It can't measure your age exactly, but lumps you into one of three categories -- under 13, between 13 and 18, and 18 and over. Because of its inexact nature it won't work for keeping kids out of porn sites, or any other application in which you need a hard "under 18/over 18" bright line. But Mr. Levin said it should work at keeping adults (over 18) out of chat rooms designated for kids 13 and younger. There are several hurdles to commercial success, as they'd have to convince chat rooms to require this identifier and the chat rooms would have to convince every visitor to buy one. I don't know if the kids' chatroom market is robust enough for that. But it did peg me as being over 18, for what that's worth, and I can attest that Shmuel Levin and Uri Levin do exist. Thanks, Andy Sullivan Reporter, Reuters America Inc. andy.sullivan () reuters com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com Get closer to the financial markets with Reuters Messaging - for more information and to register, visit http://www.reuters.com/messaging Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd. ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lauren () pfir org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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