Age assurance standards progress towards consensus, away from ‘biometrics’
Age assurance processes like facial age estimation do not require the isolation and processing of personal identifiers, unlike biometric identification….
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EU regulators aim for frictionless age verification, interoperability
Changes in age verification are on the minds of many legislators, regulators and providers. A recently released on-demand webinar presented…
Popular porn sites hit with EU regulation mandating age verification
Popular porn sites Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos will be forced to prevent European minors from accessing their content online, including…
Age verification is rising and euConsent wants to be a global solution
As countries such as the UK, the U.S. and Australia have been introducing or considering age verification regulation, the European…
Australian government opts against online age verification mandate
Australia’s Albanese government has opted out of imposing a mandatory age verification regime for online pornography and other adult content,…
OCR Labs gets age verification certification; euConsent pushes for ‘live operation’
Age verification just keeps getting hotter, at least from the government side. This year, the French government mandated that people…
Double anonymity to bring age verification to porn and social media in France
“2023 will see the end of access to pornographic sites for our children,” said French Digital Minister Jean-Noël Barrot at…
euCONSENT reports improved age verification tests, Yoti gets another partner
euCONSENT reports updated trial figures and finds that standards-setting in age verification and bringing together competing suppliers have yielded equally…
euCONSENT age verification interoperability: huge success, but the potential to fail
The encouraging results of the euCONSENT trials for browser-based interoperability for age verification and parental consent were shared at the…
Age verification and digital wallets for minors: EU launches strategy for online child safety
The European Union has devised a new strategy to help protect its children online as more protective technologies become available…
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