Age verification laws are rapidly proliferating around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. In the U.

Most states across the US are considering or introducing age verification laws. The result right now is a mishmash of rules. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is ...

Chris Fields, CMO of AI-powered age verification start-up Yoti, giving a demonstration of the company's age verification technology at their offices in London. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP via Getty ...

Scanning a face to guess its age is likely to be a major part of the “waterfall” of methods used to comply with the social ...

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App age verification isn’t just a theoretical concept being debated in Congress. A number of laws have already passed that require platforms to verify age for users in select states. For example, the ...

At the time of writing, 25 states across the US have introduced some kind of age verification law, with even more taking steps to introduce one. These laws have sparked a flurry of concerns from ...

A federal judge has halted enforcement of a Louisiana law that sought to require social media companies to verify users’ ages ...

A decisive Supreme Court decision in the case of a Texas age verification law has changed the legal landscape for online speech. At least 24 states have passed some form of age verification laws, ...

The recent push to protect minors when it comes to adult content has been much needed. Having now taken effect in the UK, this ongoing movement is not slowing down, with other European markets and the ...

COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has found that only one out of 20 reviewed pornography websites is complying with the state’s new age-verification law. The review, initiated by Yost, was ...