{"id":232828,"date":"2026-03-08T22:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/online-age-verification-tools-spread-across-u-s-for-child-safety-but-adults-are-being-surveilled"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:06:51","slug":"online-age-verification-tools-spread-across-u-s-for-child-safety-but-adults-are-being-surveilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/online-age-verification-tools-spread-across-u-s-for-child-safety-but-adults-are-being-surveilled","title":{"rendered":"Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/online-age-verification-tools-spread-across-u-s-for-child-safety-but-adults-are-being-surveilled.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New age-verification laws and tools are designed for child safety on social media and the internet, but adults are in the crosshairs, say privacy experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New age-verification laws and tools are designed for child safety on social media and the internet, but adults are in the crosshairs, say privacy experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}