Google Just Told Canadian Adults: Give Us Your ID and a Selfie Or Else…And It’s Starting Now!!
Jeanette Patell of Google Canada just announced age assurance as part of “online safety for Canadian families.” Right now.
Google will use machine learning on data it already has: your searches, YouTube watch history, and years of patterns tied to your account. Then it guesses if you’re over or under 18. When the machine is conveniently wrong it will brand a grown adult as a minor. The “fix” is to hand over a government ID or take a selfie.
If you refuse, they will treat you like a child: bedtime nags on YouTube, throttled viewing, blocked adult-restricted apps on Google Play, and more restrictions inside the services they already built on your data. This is Big Brother watching you and forcing you to prove who you are when their “guess” is conveniently wrong.
Do NOT comply. Do NOT upload the ID. Do NOT give them the selfie. Opt out of biometrics every time and starve the system before it’s too late!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6p3iwYSZXw
https://needtoknow.news/2026/09/google-just-told-canadian-adults-give-us-your-id-and-a-selfie-or-elseand-its-starting-now/