# The Internet Wants to Check you ID by The New Yorker

**URL:** <https://community.redact.dev/t/the-internet-wants-to-check-you-id-by-the-new-yorker/112>\
**Category:** Privacy News\
**Tags:** news\
**Created:** [August 29, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/the-internet-wants-to-check-you-id-by-the-new-yorker/112 "2025-08-29T03:15:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trigger\_Control](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/trigger_control/32/105_2.png) [@Trigger\_Control](https://community.redact.dev/u/Trigger_Control)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/the-internet-wants-to-check-you-id-by-the-new-yorker/112/1 "2025-08-29T03:15:42Z")

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[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-internet-wants-to-check-your-id](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-internet-wants-to-check-your-id)

“_New safety rules require users to verify their identities before gaining access to sites. This spells the end of the relative anonymity that we’ve come to expect online.”_

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**Author:** ![wooly](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/wooly/32/17_2.png) [@wooly](https://community.redact.dev/u/wooly)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/the-internet-wants-to-check-you-id-by-the-new-yorker/112/2 "2025-08-31T01:45:50Z")

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Thanks for sharing this article! We’ve got a few articles about this and how it’s impacting specific platforms

- [YouTube age verification](https://redact.dev/blog/youtube-id-verification-uk-australia-online-safety-age-assurance-2025)
- [Spotify](https://redact.dev/blog/what-spotifys-digital-age-verification-rules-really-mean-for-you)

Not exhaustive but we’ll keep following the issue 🙂