Age verification script?

I need a script that I can place inside a box that checks who's been age verified and who hasn't.

I heard a story of a guy who had a gf on sl, she said she was 18. She ended up being 14. The courts decided he was a sex predator. Thats the last thing any of us needs!

You will "hear" all kinds of stories. There is no possible way to know someone's age without seeing a legal document, which the age verification process does not do.

Now on to your question. Are you asking to know what functions to use to create the script or asking for the script? If it is the later, then check XStreet or post a query down in the Products Wanted forum. If it is the former then let us know and I could point you to the right spot in the wiki.

About the only way you can make this work is to set up a parcel that requires age verification, and use an avatar's ability to visit that spot and remain for more than a few seconds to confirm.

And then you find out about the second problem, the system is chronically broken. Age-verified avatars are frequently denied access to the land, a relog often foxes that but even that isn't reliable.

And then there is the third problem. The verification system doesn't have any way to check that people have entered their own information. Since the SL viewer offers stored passwords, there is also a pretty low level of confidence that even a person who honestly entered identification is operating a given avatar.

With all those pitfalls, the system really isn't much better than simply asking a person entering the land "are you over 18?".

the only you can do via script is try to verify if the avatar has payment info used or on file (its supose to be over 18 to use an paypal or credit card)

take a look at this wiki page

llRequestAgentData

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlRequestAgentData

Unfortunately the payment info thing doesn't work very well either, since minors can and do hold cards in their own names.

And while there is an "Avatar Age" that you can get via script, all that will tell you is how long they've been in Second Life. (and only how long THAT account has been, so it can't even tell if you're a new user or an alt).

What you CAN do.. is ask them. It's not likely to hold up in court, but it's a very simple defense to say that you had a firm beleif that the person was over 18, and that you had, literally, no way of knowing that the person was underage... and until you take an SL relationship to RL, or at least Voice, you really don't have any surefire way of knowing.

I've seen ONE "age verificaton" system that I approve of. Since the CHILD ONLINE PROTECTION ACT seems to finally have been struck down in the US by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional, This system should, once again, prove at least a "good faith effort" to determine the person's age.

Using a sensor (or a touch event), pop open a Blue Dialog that asks "Are you 18 years of age, or older?". If they answer "yes", ask them the month, day, and year, of their birth. (a little clunky to do currently via blue dialogs, but not impossible). Then one final dialog to say "you entered January 31, 1976, is that correct?" Yes, sends an email to an email account you have set up, No starts over.

While not foolproof, and frankly not any kind of guarantee at all.. you can use verifyable copies of that email to prove at least that you did try. I'd use a service like Gmail or Yahoo for storing these emails, since those companies can provide testimony that the emails were in fact received on the date in question and had not been altered.