June 2020 |
Jessica Muirhead and Professor Vic Grout discuss their recent research into age-gating practices for online alcohol sales.
... age verification during the online transaction itself needs to be robust...but it frequently isn’t.
The alcohol can sometimes be effectively hidden within the larger online basket, bypassing the age checks both online and on the doorstep.
It’s never going to be possible to completely prevent under 18s from buying alcohol online but we could, and should, be doing better than we currently are.
