UK won’t ban VPNs, puts onus on platforms to prevent age check circumvention
UK Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has published an official statement outlining the government’s positions on children’s wellbeing and safety online,…
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Accuracy minimums for age checks could bring Big Social in line with Australian law
“Age checks fail.” That is, perhaps, a snappier headline than “social media platforms aren’t following the law” – and it’s…
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,…
Australia doubles fines for social media companies not following age check law
Privacy-preserving biometric age assurance technologies work; what doesn’t is insignificant consequences for massive, multibillion dollar companies. Australia is taking this…
UK tech secretary asks Ofcom to clarify what ‘highly effective age assurance’ looks like
There are plenty of answers to the question – and yet it has dogged the UK age assurance ecosystem since…
Parsing UK PM frontrunners’ positions on digital ID and age assurance
Will the presumptive new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham rip up Labour’s digital ID policy? What about the Online Safety…
Ofcom seeks clarity, resources on social media age regulation in letter to DSIT
UK regulator Ofcom is not one hundred percent confident that it can enforce the government’s plan to impose an age…
UK aims to lead the world with new age restrictions for social media, AI chatbots
After months of promises, the UK government has pulled the trigger on regulations to restrict social media sites for children…
UK’s proposed OS-level age verification could eliminate part of DVS market
The UK government is mooting device-level restrictions on nude images that could usher in a new era of a kid-friendly…
App store age brackets power California age assurance law, but where’s the proof?
California’s Digital Age Assurance Act may reshape how online services handle age data, but critics argue the law stops short…
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