France sets 15 as minimum age for social media nationwide
Ever the libertine, France has set its social media minimum age at 15 years, adding an extra year of scrolling…
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France Identité app launches sandbox for iOS, proves age check privacy bona fides
France Identité, the French government’s mobile app for digital identity verification, has made its sandbox build available in iOS. Writing…
AgeAware goes live, setting up faceoff between reusable age check systems
AgeAware, the cryptographic token-based age assurance system developed by the nonprofit euCONSENT ASBL, has gone live. The launch comes in…
Italy’s regulator releases list of adult platforms covered by age verification law
Another domino in the global game of age verification for adult content sites is about to fall, this one in…
Australian legislators spar with platforms, each other over age assurance laws
If there’s one thing every platform can agree on when it comes to age assurance, it’s that biometric age verification…
New York’s proposed age assurance rules ‘clearest and smartest’ to emerge
A new proposal in New York State that aims to lay out age assurance rules for social media is getting…
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more
A firm claiming to provide “double blind” age assurance services to pornography sites adapting to France’s online safety law has…
Spain’s digital wallet to be included in EU age assurance app pilot project
In tandem with enforcement action on age assurance, the European Commission is ramping up activity on the EU age verification…
Italian regulator outlines technical methods for EC white label age assurance app
Italy’s Communications Regulatory Authority, AGCOM, is among the Digital Services Coordinators chosen by the European Commission to participate in the…
Double blind age assurance requirement for porn sites takes effect in France
France is getting harder on online porn. The nation began enforcing Europe’s first age assurance law in January, with regulator…
