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…
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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…
TMT ID plans to expand digital identity portfolio, reach with £30M investment
London-headquartered TMT ID, which uses mobile network data to help onboard and authenticate users or perform age verification, has raised…
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…
School phone bans don’t do much, but age appropriate design does
Age checks for social media are on the minds of regulators globally, including in the UK. In a presentation from…
Verifymy brings email age inference to k-ID partnership
Verifymy’s email-based age checks will now be available in global compliance platform k-ID’s Compliance Developer Kit. A release says the…
The role of identity in solving gaming’s accountability crisis
By Andrew Wailes, Founder and CEO, PlaySafe ID Social contracts are everywhere. They’re the guardrails that enable the world to…
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