Australia gives companies 6 months to draft online child-safety codes
In a bid to safeguard children from graphic and harmful online content, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has issued directives to “key”…
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Photos of Australian children found in AI training dataset, create deepfake risk
Personal photos of Australian children are being used to train AI through a dataset that has been built by scraping…
Porn sites try different tacks to wriggle out of US age assurance obligation
The most popular network of pornography sites on the internet is blocking access by users in five more states as…
Measured approach to age assurance needed, Aussie safety commish says
Australia’s online safety watchdog has called on lawmakers to introduce age verification as part of a suite of measures to…
Yoti responds to Ofcom’s counterfactual statements on age assurance tech
Comments from the UK’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) regarding age verification display a marked lack of understanding around the science…
UK Peers slam Ofcom refusal to require biometric age estimation for under-13s
Ofcom’s draft Children’s Safety Code of Practice will leave millions of young people exposed to online harms the legislation behind…
Age assurance laws trigger lawsuits in ongoing scuffle with porn, social media
Lawsuits continue to accumulate in the battle over age verification measures intended to protect minors from accessing adult content online,…
Age verification comes to social media as age of unregulated use nears an end
If trends continue, social media is set to follow in the path of cigarettes: an activity benefitting early from lax…
US meat industry says biometric age verification can prevent ID fraud, child labor
Showing how the breadth of use cases for biometric age verification continues to expand into new corners of industry, the…
Ofcom’s new Children’s Safety Codes require “highly effective age checks”
Ofcom has dropped the proverbial hammer on age-sensitive internet services, releasing an update that sets out more than 40 practical…
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