Mixed start for privacy advocates fighting US age verification rules for adult content

Legal strategies are being formed to prevent U.S. states from imposing new restrictions, including age-verification policies, on online publishers of adult content.

Publishers don't want more restrictions on their product, of course, but others say blocking content violates the nation's constitutional right to create and consume information without undue government intervention.

Others feel governments and other organizations will collect, keep and use identification data without consent or adequate security.

Utah's new law requiring adult sites to prove their visitors are …

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