While landlords face nominal restrictions during a natural disaster, actual prosecution for violators is rare, easily circumvented and, according to tenant rights advocates, insufficient in preventing widespread abuse.

But privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch warned many age checking methods could be circumvented and shouldn't be seen as a panacea.

They have also warned that restrictions could easily be circumvented through tools like a VPN - which can disguise a user’s location and make them appear to be logging on from another country.

He angered the officials whom he circumvented to fund his work.

But Texas lawmakers, intent on being the first to enact a ban with teeth, had already passed a harsh civil law using a novel legal strategy that circumvented Roe v.