It’s too early to know how this law will settle into full implementation, but its implications are clear: For determined kids, it’s relatively easy to cheat; for everyone else, suddenly required to prove their ages, it’s a major privacy setback. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation puts it:

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Following the rollout of the UK Online Safety Act, Britons are now being asked to confirm their age across the internet. Here’s everything you need to know.

The introduction of the UK's Online Safety Act marks a shift in internet culture, the ripples of which are already being felt around the world.

You’ll need to verify your age in the UK to keep accessing Xbox social features.

You might be familiar with the process of verifying your age in the UK. There's no shame in that. Age verification is hardly limited to just those sorts of sites—it turns out all manner of content is now age-gated,

Following a yearslong political push to make the internet safer for kids, age verification has started seeping into online spaces across the globe. Lawmakers in the US, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere have all passed age-gating rules,