Britain is building a surveillance tollbooth for the web.
Ministers in the UK are preparing the ground for new rules that would keep under-16s off major social media platforms, with the strongest surveillance age checks yet, such as passports, driving licenses, credit checks, or facial age estimation.
This latest attempt at a ban on children using social media comes after evidence that a similar one in Australia has been widely circumvented.
The new rules will still apply to platforms that use infinite scrolling, autoplay, push notifications and unsolicited contact, and are expected to take effect in the spring of 2027.
Among those that will be targeted include Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, and X.
Everyone opening a
new account will have to go through either facial recognition or upload their
ID.
The government’s fact sheet about the plan is heavy on platitudes, such as the need to protect children from online harm, but also tries to address the question of how exactly the new rules will affect adults.
Proving you are over 18 “could be as simple as a facial recognition check,” the document says. (Read More)
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Senior Researcher Brad Myers Comments,
Notice that the UK is building a surveillance system on
the web, through which anyone opening a new account will have to use either
facial recognition or upload their ID.
Look at what is happening in the US. On March 8, 2026, CNBC published an article titled, "Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled."
The article notes:"'New U.S. laws designed for
online child safety are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory
age-verification gates that often use AI technology..."
On March 2, 2026, The Guardian warned in an article titled "The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all": "Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon."
Based on current global trends, is it plausible that the totalitarian world government of the Antichrist and the False Prophet (Daniel7:23, Revelation 13:7) during the seven-year Tribulation could turn the internet into a fully surveilled digital prison?
