by AVPA | Sep 10, 2024 | News Release
10 September 2024 Washington, DC – Members of the Age Verification Providers Association demonstrated a wide-range of privacy-preserving methods of online age assurance at an event designed to inform US policymakers and jurists about the capabilities of the...
by AVPA | Aug 9, 2024 | News Release
In a piece for the Washington Post “A booming industry of AI age scanners, aimed at children’s faces”, Drew Harwell opens by quoting an allegation that facial age estimation relies on ‘a style of surveillance that ranges “from ‘somewhat privacy violating’ to...
by AVPA | Feb 15, 2024 | News Release
We often hear the argument that age verification is pointless because “Kids will just use VPNs”. That’s not a valid argument, given how the relevant laws are drafted, and indeed, may lead adult sites into a false sense of security if they think the...
by AVPA | Feb 15, 2024 | News Release
On Wednesday 14th February, we were invited to addres the Utah Senate Business and Labor Committee which is considering a revision to the State’s existing laws designed to protect minors from the harms presented by the use of social media. It was the longest...
by AVPA | Sep 22, 2023 | News Release
In a move no-one expected, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal has stepped in an overturned the injunction which stayed the implementation of Texas Bill HB1181, requiring age verification and health warnings for pornography. There is no detail, and a full hearing of the...
by AVPA | Aug 31, 2023 | News Release
This is the full judgement from the federal district court in Austin, Texas which granted an injunction preventing Texas Bill 1181 coming into force on September 1 2023. The Bill required age verification for online pornography, and the publication of defined health...
