How safe is age verification?

[SimeonaBella]

I'm 23 years old but hesistant to give out my personal information on the web to have my age verified. Any advice?

[Rolig Loon]

If you click the age verification link (https://secondlife.com/my/account/verification.php?) , this is what you see ............

Age Verification: Rolig Loon

To access adult content and areas in Second Life you must be at least 18 years old. Please enter your date of birth to confirm your age.

[Here, you see pulldown menus for Month, Day, and Year of your birth]

By checking this box, you're confirming that the date of birth entered above is true and accurate. Adult content in Second Life is just that — for adults only. We'll spell it out for you: if you are under 18, do not check this box! If you are — check it, and off you go!

 



[Cinnamon Lohner]

Wow! When did they get rid of the Aristotle link, Rolig?

--Cinn

[Claireschen Hesten]

from my personal experience age verification is safe the web form when you click ok/send or what ever it says checks your info against available records and gives LL a marker to say if your info was verified or not if not you'll be taken back to the web form the web form for age verification if powered by Aristotle a company that specialises in age and identity verification and has been used by every occupant of the whitehouse over the last 25 years according to their site. i also found manual age verification while it was still available to basic memebers quite safe with that you have to provide relevant info to LL and you can black out certain info as long as your name and D.O.B are still visible. 

edit: i wasn't awear age verification had changed i just assumed it as still run by aristotle you won't have to worry about filling out personal info anymore

[Rolig]

Dunno. I just clicked the link to check before I typed my note, and that's what's there. It all looks quite simple to me.

[Nyll Bergbahn]

Linden Lab sure sprung this change on us.

We'll have nothing to answer soon. Ghosting questions already gone and now age verification questions gone as well. :smileyvery-happy:

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Age-verification/ta-p/700021

[Cinnamon Lohner]

Recognized Helper seeks employment with support forum where there are still problems to solve.   Slightly used and abused but otherwise still functional. :smileyvery-happy:

--Cinn

[Stoner Stormcrow]

It is about as safe as any other information you give out over a secure website on the Internet. You know, credit card information at Amazon.com and stuff like that. If it's gonna get hacked it's gonna get hacked, but so far I've had no problems here at SL with that kinda stuff. Yet.