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@neil I think we all realise that eventually that verification data will be leaked/‘hacked’… photos, names, driving licence details etc.
It's not always as simple as it could be but the tech which children use should be as locked down as possible. Parental controls blocking search for example. Perhaps efforts should be focussed in improving those controls + educating parents?
Then there's the whole VPN issue. Those are easy for anyone to install, use, and get past these rules.
@andycarolan @neil I've been testing parental controls for at least 15 years, and I've yet to encounter a system that is sufficiently nuanced to give tweens/young teenagers in particular access to things they should have access to while still blocking actual pr0n, mostly due to scope creep that tends in specific ideological directions (such as homophobia built into the service).
More worrying still, pretty much all of them have massive scope for abuse by parents/guardians and include features such as tracking, usually implemented in ways that violate the rights of the child.
I don't have any great answers at scale to this - as an individual parent, I have a solution, but its success depends on my being extremely hands-on and technically/culturally knowledgeable about the internet, and it still reflects my biases about appropriate content.
@andycarolan@social.lol@HauntedOwlbear As you said about your own solution, I think it has to be very hands on. My solution here is very much reliant on iOS parental controls on a case by case basis. I have whitelisted some apps however. I imagine that tween/teen ages are more difficult because there's a need for more access to social apps and services, and that brings with it it's own problems. @neil