South Africa rejects blanket social media age verification for under-16s
South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, has told parliament that the government is not pursuing any…
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Age verification brings the privacy debate to vaping
By Thomas Chen, Chief Technology Officer of IKE Tech The most consequential age-verification deployment happening right now is not on…
Seon’s biometric IDV software certified for eIDAS 2.0, age verification in Germany
A double-certification announcement from U.S.-based Seon positions the company’s software to compete for share in Europe’s growing digital identity verification…
Most consumers want age verification through reusable digital IDs: Jumio survey
Three quarters of global consumers are willing to go through age verification if it will help keep children away from…
French vape industry calls for age verification standard in online sales
The health status of vaping remains unsettled, with some studies showing that e-cigarettes can damage the heart and lungs faster…
SCOTUS sides with Texas on app store age verification, denies emergency block
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a requests to block Texas’ app store age verification law on grounds it would violate…
Scandit launches biometric age verification, estimation for retail self-checkouts
Switzerland-based Scandit has launched a new facial age estimation and age verification system for retail self-checkouts that it says can…
OCR Studio joins AVPA as age verification market expands from EU to UAE
OCR Studio is the newest member of the Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA), joining the global trade body for privacy-preserving,…
US child safety bill reignites debate over age verification
House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have reached a bipartisan agreement on legislation intended to strengthen online protections for children,…
Update on identity, age verification for Claude prompts user pushback
Anthropic, developer of the popular chatbot Claude, has updated its privacy policy with a notice that it could ask users…
