@patrickleavy@mastodon.social @_elena@mastodon.social Valve (Steam) achieved age verification in the UK by requiring a credit card. Because to have a credit card you have to be a certain age https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/292B-3DA3-CFC8-97F6 this doesn't completely answer your question, but it collapses the need for another privacy disclosure. the credit card company knew before, it still knows, but no one else does but of course, now your credit card is exposed for another potential data breach