Australian PM’s proposed law makes social platforms responsible for age assurance
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is proposing a minimum age of 16 years social media users and wants the onus…
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Google extending digital wallet to kids for contactless payments
Google plans to make its digital wallet available to children whose parents or guardians use the Family Link app so…
Australian police insist FRT (Clearview?) will help in fight against child abuse
Australian law enforcement officials want changes to privacy legislation that would enable them to use facial recognition to identify victims…
UNHCR concerned about slow registration of refugee children for Ethiopia’s digital ID program
The enrollment of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons for digital ID in Ethiopia has been ongoing since March, but…
Norway proposes raising social media age limit to 15 backed by age verification system
The Norwegian government has unveiled a proposal to increase the minimum age for social media use to 15, in a…
Australia introduces draft codes on age assurance for adult content sites
It’s about to get harder for underage Australians to watch porn online. Industry groups have released draft codes on age…
France blocks 4 porn sites for lack of robust age checks
France has begun blocking pornographic web sites that refused to implement age checks beyond user declaration, following a ruling by…
French regulator releases technical reference on age verification for porn
France’s Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication, Arcom, has published its Technical Reference on Age Verification for the Protection…
App stores enter the age verification debate as social media points fingers
In the dialogue about how to effectively protect young people from accessing adult content online, social media companies take a…
How multimodal biometrics help with age verification and compliance
By Vignesh Krishnakumar, co-founder and CTO of HyperVerge Over 66 percent of the world’s population is online, so it is…
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