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The Age Verification Providers Association
The Age Verification Providers Association is a not-for-profit global trade body representing almost 30 organizations who provide privacy-preserving, audited and certified age assurance solutions (both age verification and age estimation), proportionate to the risk of harm. The AVPA was formed in 2018 and is expanding rapidly as the age and identity provider industry grows. Age assurance has emerged to be a key driver of the wider market for digital identity.
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Meta wants Australia to know that it’s toeing the line. That’s the message the company conveys with a new update…
| Dec 8, 2025 | MyMahi criticizes Australian social media age law set to take effect WednesdayNew Zealand’s privacy regulator has already expressed reservations about Australia’s age assurance requirement for social media platforms, which comes into… |
| Dec 5, 2025 | No pints with digital ID or porn from Belize for UK revelers this ChristmasUK drinkers raising a glass to former Technology Secretary Peter Kyle this Christmas would best honour him with a glass… |
| Dec 2, 2025 | Pinterest lines up behind Meta to endorse App Store Accountability ActPinterest has endorsed Utah Senator Mike Lee’s App Store Accountability Act (ASA), which puts the onus on mobile app stores… |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Dialogue between UK government, digital identity providers gets restart next weekChief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones will meet with UK digital identity providers next Tuesday, December 2 for… |
| Nov 28, 2025 | As Dec 10 deadline approaches, opponents of Australia social media law get louderWith less than two weeks to go before Australia’s social media ban for people under 16 takes effect, Silicon Valley… |
| Nov 27, 2025 | Meta lobbies Canada’s government to put age assurance at the app store levelMeta is trying to get ahead of the age assurance debate in Canada, with a pitch to the government in… |
| Nov 10, 2025 | With OpenAge, k-ID presents itself as one big interoperable solution for age checksA new initiative from k-ID is aiming to corner the market on reusable age checks, with support from tech’s heavy… |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Physical ID, private sector alternatives pitched to save UK digital identity planThe UK government’s plans for a national identification scheme have so far focused largely on online processes carried out with… |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Italy’s regulator releases list of adult platforms covered by age verification lawAnother domino in the global game of age verification for adult content sites is about to fall, this one in… |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Is age verification killing porn site traffic? Aylo says yes, AVPA says noIn the lead-up to the enforcement deadline of the UK’s Online Safety Act, Aylo, the company that owns Pornhub and… |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Australian legislators spar with platforms, each other over age assurance lawsIf there’s one thing every platform can agree on when it comes to age assurance, it’s that biometric age verification… |
| Oct 14, 2025 | Ready or informed or not, here comes UK’s national digital ID debateThe UK’s mandatory digital ID scheme is facing criticism from nearly all observers, but for reasons that range from the… |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Progress on age assurance since enforcement deadline ‘substantial,’ says ICOA recent webinar from Shufti Pro sees the UK firm digging into the age assurance question, exploring how platforms can… |
| Sep 24, 2025 | New Zealand takes stock of online age verification optionsAge assurance is on New Zealand’s agenda as the country advances its digital identity system and the Trust Framework that… |
| Sep 10, 2025 | AVPA says OSA launch successful, but regulation, deployments need refiningThe Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) has published a postmortem on the UK Online Safety Act rollout, with details on… |
| Sep 5, 2025 | Australian consult on age checks for social media shows common themesAustralia’s eSafety Commissioner has released documents summarizing the results of public consultations on how best to implement social media age… |
| Sep 5, 2025 | UK OSA rollout offers lessons for US lawmakers on trust, communicationThe current debate over the UK’s Online Safety Act provides a useful illustration of how two key pillars of a… |
| Aug 22, 2025 | India charts new path to reduce online harms to children with age verificationAs in digital identity, India is charting an unexplored course in pursuit of goals shared with nations around the world… |
| Aug 18, 2025 | VPNs a navigable challenge for age assurance sector, says AVPAWhat to do about Virtual Private Networks? The VPN question is on the minds of many organizations and legislators navigating… |
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| Feb 28, 2024 | Age verification: Lessons learned from the UK |
