birthDateApprox stores a generated date: 1 January of the birth year, shifted randomly within a 24-month range. The day and month have no connection to your birthday, and even the year may differ. We use it to derive an age range, balancing privacy with context about who is behind the keyboard.
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Walrus (@walrus.northsky.social)
Whats your motive in making data like nationality and approximate date of birth public? It seems like users have/had the option to not have their full name made public, do users have the option to hide their nationality or approximate date of birth as well? If not, then why?
The EU’s age verification app has a privacy problem — and it may be more than just a 'bug in an app'
It's an improvement compared to existing solutions, but security experts still aren't convinced
Age prediction in ChatGPT | OpenAI Help Center
Learn how ChatGPT uses age prediction and age verification to support age-appropriate experiences for teens.
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Apple has redesigned the iPhone for the on-device AI age. - Sep 21, 2025
Fedica (@fedica.com)
We've been doing social media analytics for well over a decade, no other social media platform provided public age data per account like this Facebook has user_birthday but users must authorize the app to read their own data, not of any account! Have we not learned anything from Cambridge Analytica
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The limits of zero-knowledge for age-verification | Brave
ZKPs are often advanced as a technical remedy, promising privacy-preserving attestations of age or eligibility. Yet their deployment in practice exposes both conceptual and practical limits.
The Age-Verification Trap
Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?
Roblox Requires Users Worldwide to Age-Check to Access Chat
Roblox’s Facial Age Estimation process protects user privacy, with all images deleted immediately after processing Roblox Corporation (NYSE: RBLX), an immersive gaming and creation platform, announced that starting today, users in the U.S. will be required to complete an age check to chat with others. Over the next week, this requirement will roll out to all regions where chat is available. With this change, Roblox becomes the first large online gaming platform to require age checks for users of all ages to access chat. This marks an important investment in user safety and enables age-appropriate communication and limits conversations between adults and minors. Age groups shown are for Roblox chat. Age groups may vary by region and product. Roblox began requiring the age check for chat access in December in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands, following its phased rollout announcement in November . To date, over 50% of daily active users in Australia, New Zealand, and the
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Pick dates, share a link, and that's your calendar. PocketCal is a free, open-source web app that lets you select dates and instantly share them. No accounts, just a link, and nothing in your way.
The Digital Loophole: 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP 2025
Social media platforms are an integral part of daily life for nearly five billion people worldwide. However, the growing presence of underage users on these platforms raises significant concerns regarding children’s exposure to harmful content and its impact on their mental health. This paper examines the effectiveness of age verification measures implemented on leading platforms Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and X. We evaluate the age verification processes required for account creation by simulating the registration steps for minors on these platforms. We also compare these methods to best practices in online age assurance in finance, betting and public transportation sectors. IEEE provides a standard for evaluating the age assurance of a platform or service. Our study benchmarks each platform’s approach against the IEEE standard for robustness. Our research identifies gaps that allow underage users to easily bypass existing age restrictions, with particular practices such as allowing disposable emails and basic browser refreshes further weakening self-declared age checks. The findings highlight the need for more robust age verification measures by social media applications to support their stated age limit policies. This work emphasises the urgent need for stronger and more reliable age verification methods to align the digital age of consent across EU member states and beyond with the minimum age requirements on social media.
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