Australia expands age checks to AI chatbots, app stores, porn sites and more
After becoming the first country to ban under-16s from social media, Australia has now gone further by implementing one of…
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LATAM nations ramp up regulations for age-restricted content online
Multiple countries in Latin America are adopting online safety regulations, making the region an area of focus for the next…
Age verification for social media, chatbots go viral with regulators globally
Age assurance has achieved memetic repeatability. Australia’s efforts to keep kids under 16 off big social media platforms are being…
Age assurance standards move into focus ahead of 2026 global summit
Tony Allen has a million things on his mind. At the moment, most of them concern the 2026 Global Age…
FTC makes COPPA exception for data collected for age verification process
Having hosted a number of events exploring the mechanics, ethics and applications of online age assurance technology, the U.S. Federal…
Australia launches major evaluation of social media minimum age law
How is Australia’s experiment in setting a minimum age for social media use going? It’s a question many in the…
Apple updates Declared Age Range API for national, state-level age assurance laws
Apple has released a beta update to its Declared Age Range API, which it has pitched as an alternative to…
Discord apologizes for Persona snafu, delays global age verification rollout
In a new blog post, Discord CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy says he’s bummed out how people interpreted language on its website…
California bill requiring age checks for social media has strong support from Newsom
California looks set to impose legal age restrictions for social media, in keeping with the global trend to regulate the…
Türkiye considers social media age checks, restrictions on handling children’s data
Türkiye wants to examine the data processing of major social media platforms, as identity verification and age restrictions are being…
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