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Online games sites, AI chatbots and companions as well as social media platforms will soon have to carry out age verification when a user opens a new account, according to documents obtained by Euractiv.
That doesn’t prove more than the age of the account, though - if I share the account details with anyone, there’s more than one user and at least one is of unknown age. And assuming the og owner isn’t e.g. dead (or made several accounts), it’d make no difference to verifying my age now to prove I’m an adult…
But the unknown user can only log in with his age verification. You won’t verify your age once but every time. Otherwise it could be circumvented like you describe.
That’s why it is dangerous because it can be easily abused for tracking.