by AVPA | Feb 3, 2026 | Thought Leadership
Below are summaries of the presentations and panel’s from last week’s FTC workshop. (Please note these have been in part machine-generated, so you are advised to refer to the video of the full proceedings to confirm exactly what was said by any speaker)...
by Rebecca Burgess | Jan 22, 2026 | Thought Leadership
21 May 2024 | DefAI Project blog by George Billinge In recent months, the global conversation has heated up. The Australian government has announced significant funding towards a trial of age verification, as part of a suite of measures to tackle violence against...
by AVPA | Jan 15, 2026 | Thought Leadership
The UK Government is considering it, and their Conservative Party has already announced that it intends to follow Australia’s lead by setting a minimum age of 16 for social media. Critics of the policy claim that it is not working in Australia, but the evidence does...
by AVPA | Nov 27, 2025 | Thought Leadership
In the United States, a wave of federal bills is attempting to redefine how children, teens, and their parents interact with the digital world. Each proposal takes a different approach to online safety, privacy, and platform responsibility. What varies even more...
by AVPA | Sep 8, 2025 | Thought Leadership
Headlines (BBC, FT, Sky), based on data from Similarweb, have claimed that the use of leading porn sites has been cut by up to 47% in the UK, since the introduction of a comprehensive requirement for “highly effective age assurance”. We believe that these...
by AVPA | Sep 8, 2025 | Thought Leadership
The Age Verification Providers Association has produced a report, based on discussions with our members, about the key lessons learned from the wide-scale implementation of “highly effective age assurance” in the UK on July 25th. The scale of the launch...
