Spotify picks Yoti for age verification, estimation amid UK’s OSA growing pains
Spotify has implemented age assurance in the form of facial age estimation and ID verification with face biometrics, both from…
Online Safety Act
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Should payment processors dictate online safety compliance for sites that rely on them?
People tend to trust their credit card providers to comply with regulations, but as online safety laws kick in, some…
As OSA kicks in, Yoti sees 25% spike in traffic, lands at number two on Apple charts
UK age assurance provider Yoti has hit the charts in a big way following the activation of the Online Safety…
UK high court hears Wikipedia suit against Online Safety Act category rules
Web 2.0 is more than two decades old, but in many ways the world is just beginning to reckon with…
UK age verification is here: Ofcom set to begin enforcing Online Safety Act
The age assurance bell is tolling in the UK, where the Online Safety Act is set to take effect. The…
PlaySafe ID CEO: ‘Gamers don’t want their behaviour tracked or tied to passports’
Video games bring in significantly more revenue than the movie industry, with multiplayer online games especially lucrative. The likes of…
With age verification law back on in France, Aylo blocks Pornhub again
Aylo, which owns some of the world’s most highly trafficked free pornography websites, has once again pulled the boudoir curtain…
Ofcom planning more safety measures to tackle addictive design
It has been noted previously in these pages that the UK is looking to be taken seriously in pursuing its…
Epic Games provides Yoti facial age estimation to Bluesky for UK users
Social media platform Bluesky has selected Epic Games’ software, including biometrics-based age estimation from Yoti, to ensure its compliance with…
Age verification coming to major video game mod site in EU, UK
Want to make sweet love to that frost giant who lives in the fjord? You may have to prove your…
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