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Verify age without building identity trails
Kenya should not confuse knowing someone's age with knowing someone's identity. The best age-assurance system is the one that establishes the required fact with the least additional surveillance.
Kenya is right to demand strong protection for children online. But there is a dangerous way to achieve it: make every user reveal who they are to prove how old they are.
That would turn child protection into identity infrastructure. Age assurance is becoming one of the hardest problems in digital governance. Platforms need reliable ways to distinguish adults from children when access to pornography, gambling or other age-restricted services is at stake.
