{"id":12241,"date":"2026-05-05T20:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=12241"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:11:45","slug":"age-verification-systems-kids-can-beat-them-with-fake-mustaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=12241","title":{"rendered":"Age verification systems: kids can beat them with fake mustaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>For those who think a fake mustache is not fooling anybody, think again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>Since 2023, the United Kingdom\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/online-safety-act-explainer\/online-safety-act-explainer\">Online Safety Act<\/a> has tasked social media and search engine companies with protecting young users by restricting harmful content and even resorting to age verification to access platforms. <\/p>\n<p>But unsurprisingly, the tech-savvy young generation is already developing ingenuous ways to jump through the extra sets of hoops. <\/p>\n<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.internetmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Internet-Matters-Online-Safety-Act-Report-May-2026.pdf\">recent study<\/a> by Internet Matters, a British child online safety organization, found that around one-third of children in the UK have bypassed safety measures like age verification. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>The safeguard often requires users to take a selfie or show a valid ID to verify their age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did catch my son using an eyebrow pencil to draw a mustache on his face, and it verified him as 15 years old,\u201d an anonymous mother of a 12-year-old boy told Internet Matters.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-i-have-helped-my-son-get-around-them\">\u201cI have helped my son get around them\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>The survey polled 1,000 children and their parents, with 46% of those surveyed believing that age checks are easy to bypass. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91537105\/age-verification-systems-kids-beat-them-fake-mustaches\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who think a fake mustache is not fooling anybody, think again. Since 2023, the United Kingdom\u2019s Online Safety Act has tasked social media and search engine companies with protecting young users by restricting harmful content and even resorting to age verification to access platforms. But unsurprisingly, the tech-savvy young generation is already developing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brand-spotlights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}