Tag Archives: age verification

Little kids. Big bucks.

Posted on March 5, 2011 by

In 2006 children and young people in the UK up to the age of 19 spent £12 billion out of their own pocket money or earnings derived from part-time jobs. If you add the amounts spent by parents, over which … Continue reading →

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Location, location, location

Posted on March 4, 2011 by

  The development of mobile phones and other portable internet enabled devices has encouraged the emergence of technologies which now make it possible for any internet or mobile phone user’s whereabouts to be tracked. A growing array of applications can … Continue reading →

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The perils of plastic

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

There has been a huge expansion in the availability of so-called “stored value” cards. They are more commonly known as “prepaid credit cards” because the most famous of them sport the logos of Visa and Mastercard. “Gift cards” are a … Continue reading →

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Stronger online authentication and age verification is on its way

Posted on February 8, 2011 by

Historians will no doubt quibble about when, exactly, Internet 1.0 started to die and glimpses of  Internet 2.0 first became evident. I think President Obama’s incumbency will certainly be seen as a key staging post. The enormity of the Obama Administration’s ambition is … Continue reading →

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