Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.

As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.

Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.

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  • fuzzzerd@programming.devEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    While true, a government IDP would still be able to track what sites you’re using your tokens at, which is not great.

    • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net
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      5 hours ago

      Agreed, but you’d think they would prefer that. The way it is now, they have no way of knowing which platforms have your government IDs.

      Though, let’s be real, all they need to do is pay a data broker for the tracking data that’s already being collected everywhere.