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MySpace.comAge-verification technologies have the potential to dramatically affect how people do business and interact socially online.

Some lawmakers and law enforcers are pushing such applications as tools to protect children on popular social-networking sites like MySpace. Others are curious as to whether age verification can be used as part of a regulatory regime if Congress rescinds restrictions on Internet gambling.

But the dispute is being shaped by disagreement over how well the technologies work, and it has ensnared companies with considerable influence inside the Beltway and beyond.