Two major digital platforms are implementing new age verification measures as governments tighten controls on children’s online access, with Spotify requiring facial scans in the UK and YouTube being ...

The streaming platform is implementing a facial scan process in partnership with Yoti, which also provides its services to ...

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The outcome so far is an assortment of online services handling sensitive user information — a “privacy nightmare,” says Cody ...

The general problem of how to ensure app integrity without relying on the dominant OS providers has cropped up elsewhere.

Spotify has threatened to delete people’s accounts unless users verify their age. The music streaming app, which has nearly 700m users, said it would remove accounts that fail age estimation checks ...

Despite the app's honourable intentions, the latest restrictions implemented by Spotify bosses has sparked mass backlash ...

From data breaches to the US government getting its hands on your data – all the cybersecurity risks posed by the Online ...

Gamers are uniquely exploiting a loophole in the UK's new age verification system by using Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding ...

After the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act went into effect on Friday, requiring porn platforms and other adult content ...

You'd think that Discord and Reddit would notice thousands of users suddenly resembling Norman Reedus.

A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and ...