Fwd: [security-lunch] Mar 11 | Riana Pfefferkorn on "Advanced Persistent Teenagers: Is Age Assurance Circumvention Hacking?"

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Subject: [security-lunch] Mar 11 | Riana Pfefferkorn on "Advanced Persistent Teenagers: Is Age Assurance Circumvention Hacking?"
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Security Lunch ⛄ Ed. — Wednesday,  Mar 11th, 2026, 12:00 pm @ CoDa E160

Advanced Persistent Teenagers: Is Age Assurance Circumvention Hacking?

Riana Pfefferkorn

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Abstract: 

Age assurance (in its various forms) is essentially a security challenge of determining whom to grant access to certain information or functionality in a system, with children as the adversary. As age assurance systems have become more widespread thanks to laws in a growing number of jurisdictions, so have strategies for defeating them. These jurisdictions also typically outlaw hacking. If a child circumvents a system’s age-gating controls and gets access to information or functionality that a child of that age is not authorized to access, is the child potentially liable for hacking? If a third party provides the tools for circumventing the age gate, could the third party face liability as well?

Bio:

Riana Pfefferkorn is a policy fellow at Stanford HAI. A lawyer by training, Riana researches the law and policy implications of emerging technologies including AI. Her research spans topics in privacy and civil liberties, encryption policy, digital surveillance, cybersecurity, and online trust and safety. Before joining HAI, Riana was a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory, and before that, the Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, where she remains an affiliate. Riana is a member of the California and Washington state bars and a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and Whitman College.

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