User (Non-)Compliance with Age Verification: Evidence from a Deceptive Web Experiment
summary
A deceptive web experiment with 1,635 participants tests five verification methods via an AgeGuardian iframe prototype and simulated camera and ID flows. Results show checkbox and email lookups yield high completion, AI about half, while <25% complete gov ID verification and many close the site. Privacy reassurances do not change behavior, data minimization boosts willingness, and identity wallets are proposed as a promising but untested fix.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Age verification compliance study
- 1:20Global age verification policies
- 3:06Adults' concerns about verification
- 4:10Experimental design and questions
- 5:13Experimental platform details
- 7:01Recruitment and ad platforms
- 8:05Age verification methods tested
- 9:10Privacy disclosures impact
- 11:39Participant demographics
- 12:00Verification completion rates
- 13:27User perceptions of mechanisms
- 14:53Key takeaways and solutions
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