The UK has launched a consultation that covers age verification, age assurance, social media bans, AI chatbot/LLM bans, VPN bans, parental controls and other topics.
There are three ways to respond:
- Full consultation for anyone (civil society, industry and members of the public)
- Survey for parents and carers of young people aged 21 and under
- Survey for children and young people (aged 10 to 21)
The consultation is "Growing up in the online world" -
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation .
Deadline is 23:59 26 May 2026.
I took the one for individuals and selected all topics. It took me 5 hours to complete.
The internet can be made safer without intrusive age verification methods that have huge security flaws, been hacked and misuse data :)
