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...
by AVPA | Sep 1, 2025 | Thought Leadership
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has published a brief which offers a useful snapshot of how a small group of US teens and parents feel about common age-verification methods. The sample is modest and qualitative by design, so it surfaces concerns rather...
by AVPA | Aug 30, 2025 | Thought Leadership
The UK’s Online Safety Act (“OSA”) 2023 has faced criticism from some quarters, with detractors labeling it an instrument of censorship that stifles online expression. This narrative completely misrepresents the Act’s purpose and effect. Far...
by AVPA | Aug 9, 2025 | Thought Leadership
VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) route a user’s internet traffic through an encrypted tunnel to a server in another location. They protect privacy, secure public Wi-Fi connections and, for many businesses, are essential to remote working. They also allow a user to...
by AVPA | Jun 23, 2025 | Thought Leadership
On the face of it, the publication of preliminary findings by the Age Assurance Technology Trial, commissioned by the Australian Government, was good news for the Age Verification industry. The headline conclusion, that “age assurance can be done” in the Australian...
