AVPA, academics, advocacy groups trade letters over age assurance tech
New rifts have opened up in the debate over the safety and privacy status of age assurance technology. An open…
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UK OSA rollout offers lessons for US lawmakers on trust, communication
The current debate over the UK’s Online Safety Act provides a useful illustration of how two key pillars of a…
Rage verification: objections to UK, US online safety laws get heated
In the course of a few months, online age assurance – and the age verification or age estimation tech that…
DSA guidelines risk fragmentation of EU age assurance for social media
The EU may allow member states to set their own age requirements for accessing certain products or services through age…
Privacy, free speech, children’s online safety collide in age assurance legal wars
By this point, the amount of collective hand wringing over children’s online safety and related age assurance legislation could surely…
Identity fraud for FEMA disaster relief raises questions on timeline for digital ID
In the worst tradition of disaster capitalism, fraudsters have targeted victims of California’s wildfires, committing identity theft to access financial…
Pats on the back, questions and suggestions for NIST’s Digital Identity Guidelines
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology should communicate clearly with Congress and continue to refine key concepts in…
Microsoft calls for AI deepfake fraud to be made illegal as fake Harris ad circulates
It took less than ten days after Joe Biden stepped away from the U.S. presidential election for a deepfake of…
Opposition to U.S. federal privacy law grows louder
The latest draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), which would regulate privacy protection for U.S. citizens at the…
NIST, Georgetown, CDT to enhance digital identity guidelines for public benefits
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is tailoring its digital identity guidelines to better…
