The banking sector's proposed digital verification service echoes our research: privacy-preserving age checks at the point of sale, without an ID.
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Writing on academic practice, governance and quality in online higher education, informed by research in pedagogy and information systems.
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The UK Government's consultation on the Licensing Act 2003 covers digital proof of age and where online age checks happen, both issues our research raised.
I've passed my viva and submitted my PhD thesis on the quality of online informational content, which developed the Informative Web Content Guidelines (IWCG).
Our Institute of Alcohol Studies research proposes using Merchant Category Codes on card payments to stop underage online alcohol sales, with little friction.
Our Alcohol Change UK research found online alcohol age checks inadequate and often left to delivery. Clearer law and bank-based checks would protect under-18s.
Our Alcohol Change UK study found online age checks for alcohol largely ineffective, and recommended verifying age at purchase through bank authorisation.
Our HICSS paper draws on Bergson and Whitehead to ask how immersion in digital networks affects free will, and argues for IT mindfulness and ethical design.
Understanding Digital Events (Routledge, 2019) applies the process philosophy of Bergson and Whitehead to digital experience. An introduction to the book.