Indonesia drafting age verification, online child protection regulations
The Indonesian government is drafting child protection laws to protect them in the digital realm. The Draft Government Regulation (RPP)…
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.
Age verification of performers, device-level controls could improve UK porn controls
The UK needs to be ready to police content creation more stringently and alter the way age assurance is applied…
Path to age assurance compliance for online service providers emerges
Businesses offering a whole range of products and services online should be preparing now for age assurance regulations, even if…
AVPA tells US Congress group SCREEN Act gets age assurance right
Federal U.S. lawmakers are considering online age assurance legislation to cover pornographic services across the whole country, in the wake…
Test lab, bias considerations for Australia age assurance trial revealed
Testing and evaluation of age assurance technologies for the upcoming trial in Australia will be carried out by Melbourne-based software…
California considers bill to expand online child protection rules to AI
Add AI to the long and growing list of potentially harmful things legislators want to protect children from, along with…
Meta insists app stores, not apps, are the best place for age assurance measures
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta continues to lead the push to make app stores responsible for age assurance, in a thinly-veiled campaign…
Singapore regulator studying age assurance for social media services
Singapore has already slapped app stores with age verification requirements, and is among nations exploring age assurance measures for social…
Email address age assurance is private, compliant and simple: VerifyMy, Yoti
Email is the technology that never dies, and now it has a use case for age estimation. Both VerifyMy and…
EU Data Protection Board adopts age assurance statement with guiding principles
With age check legislation coming to the fore of discussions about online safety, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has…
