{
  "id": 4879,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05513v1",
  "title": "Age Verification in the Web -- Holy Grail to Control Access to Restricted Content",
  "summary": "Age verification before accessing restricted content is critical to protecting minors from exposure to harmful material such as pornography, gambling, violence, hateful speech, and substance purchases like alcohol and tobacco. Currently, the absence of reliable age-checking mechanisms allows children extensive access to such adult content, posing significant risks to their worldview and mental development. While regulatory efforts like the European Union's Digital Services Act promote using Digi",
  "authors": "Wojciech Wodo, Maksymilian Gorski, Lucjan Hanzlik",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "eu",
  "published_at": "2026-05-06T23:29:04.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:21.931Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/4879",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05513v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}