Colorado Shifts Age Verification Strategy from Websites to Operating Systems
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Summary
Colorado lawmakers are revisiting online age verification legislation, shifting the debate from whether to protect children online to how to effectively implement such protections. The focus has moved from requiring age checks on individual websites to leveraging centralized technology ecosystems like mobile operating systems and app stores as enforcement points. This approach aims to create more comprehensive and practical age verification systems while addressing privacy and implementation concerns that have plagued previous attempts at website-level age verification.
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Colorado has joined a growing number of states considering legislation aimed at limiting minors' access to online content deemed harmful.
Many lean on centralized technology ecosystems, particularly mobile operating systems and app stores, as enforcement points rather than requiring age checks on individual websites.
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