Upcoming Event February 10, 2026

Online Age Verification Poses Serious Dangers: What are our alternatives?

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David Greene in conversation with Evan Light

Governments are increasingly requiring age verification for access to certain online content. In the name of protecting children online, systems for age verification create dangerous new forms of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion. Every system requires users to hand over sensitive personal information linking their offline identity to their online activity -- valuable data easily leaked, hacked, or misused. Join Evan Light’s conversation with David Greene, Senior Counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation about the dangers and what should be done.

Co-Sponsored by Edmonton Public Library, PEN Canada, Toronto Public Library, and Vancouver Public Library

Zoom link to event torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567

This is a free event and no registration is required.

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