France, Utah consider age verification for social media users
The French government has advanced a bill to establish an obligation for social networks to put in place a technical…
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Instagram takes Yoti facial age estimation to Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan
Meta Platforms is continuing its pilot of age verification via facial age estimation technology from UK firm Yoti in a…
Proposed age verification bills across US online privacy, anonymity debate
Moves by some state houses of representatives in the United States to put in place laws that restrict access to…
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…
Age verification proposed in 2 more US states
Two more U.S. states are working on ideas to separate children from pornography. Arkansas and Utah, a pair of the…
Porn back as political hurdle for age verification in UK, Australia takes next step
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been prompted by his Conservative Party members to increase the strictness of age security…
Jail time for UK tech bosses if they fail to keep children safe online
The UK’s Online Safety Bill evades defeat in its third reading in Parliament after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surrenders to…
How social login is pushing passwords into an early grave
By Deepak Gupta, CTO & Co-Founder of LoginRadius Passwords are a thing of the past. They’re too hard to remember, they don’t…
Kids are guinea pigs in schools’ biometric data privacy experiments
No global generation of kids, not the Xers, not even the Boomers will be as influential around the world as…
A proposal for responsible deepfakes
A small academic and corporate team of researchers say they have created a way to preserve the biometric privacy of…
