If you’ve ever visited a beer, wine or liquor website, you’ve been faced with an age verification page. If a company is actually selling alcohol online, age verification would make sense ― it’s akin to showing your ID ― but age verification on a website that only talks about alcohol is a little confusing. “There is no law or regulation per se that requires age verification,” Cable bluntly told HuffPost. Do these age verification pages actually work? The way minors could get caught varies from case to case Cable says, but it can be serious.

Source: Huffington Post September 21, 2017 18:27 UTC