Malaysia plans social media age checks, pushes Meta to get proactive on online safety
Malaysia is following Australia’s lead, with a plan to implement age assurance requirements for social media platforms and a prohibition…
Age Assurance
Biometric age assurance is any method of confirming a claim about the age of an individual by measuring their physical characteristics or actions. It includes age verification, which compares face biometrics from a reference image on an identity document to a facial photo or selfie, and age estimation, which analyzes the facial features in a photo to estimate a person’s age, typically within a given range. It also includes other methods that utilize voice or gesture.
Meta shuts down research showing its platforms are bad for mental health
Newly released documents show that Meta scrapped internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram, once it…
Aylo continues to argue site-level age verification is ineffective
Aylo, the Canadian company that owns Pornhub and its related network of adult content sites, is not going down without…
Yoti to provide 4 age assurance options for Shopify
Shopify has integrated Yoti’s biometric technology to provide age checks for the sale of age-restricted goods, marking a significant win…
Australia latest nation to face insults, threats from US over online safety laws
America has summoned Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, to answer for her alleged offenses against free speech. In a…
Roblox to make age assurance for chat mandatory as of January 2026
Roblox is trying. In the face of mounting criticism of the social gaming platform’s failure to protect kids from grooming…
Age verification for porn has unintended Constitutional costs: Google Trends study
New research based on Google Trends data questions the effectiveness of state age assurance laws for adult content sites –…
Adult content sites maneuver to escape VLOP designation under EU’s DSA
For an industry in which size matters, porn streaming services are proving eager to show how small they actually are….
Increasing adoption forces facial age estimation to retread familiar debates
Facial age estimation is under increased scrutiny as regulations like the UK’s Online Safety Act introduce millions of people to…
Ofcom implementation delays trigger pressure from DSIT, pushback from Wikipedia
Months after it began enforcing the UK Online Safety Act and its related codes, British regulator Ofcom finds itself in…
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