by AVPA | Jun 1, 2023 | Thought Leadership
An OpEd on Daily Beast by Professor Jeff Kosseff argues “Social Media Age Requirements Are Anti-Free Speech.” First, we’d encourage him to look at how data-minimised, privacy-preserving Age Verification (AV) has been developed in Europe, with no need...
by AVPA | Jun 1, 2023 | Thought Leadership
With some 144 bills in across 43 US States introduced in 2023 which specifically attempt to protect children from various harms on the Internet, keeping track of what is required where is already a huge challenge for many online services. Even where Bills are copied...
by AVPA | Jun 1, 2023 | Thought Leadership
The Texas state legislature has now passed House Bill No. 1181 “relating to restricting access to sexual material harmful to minors”. The Bill requires that a commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes such material on a website,...
by AVPA | May 12, 2023 | Thought Leadership
As a wave of new laws requiring social media companies to verify the age of children continue to pass, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii and his bi-partisan colleagues Senators Tom Cotton, Chris Murphy, and Katie Britt have introduced a Federal version, the...
by AVPA | May 9, 2023 | Thought Leadership
In Louisiana, it is clear that the “LA Wallet” app is not the only method of proving age to comply with Act No. 440. Adult publishers should carefully consider this app and the range of alternative methods of age verification before relying on it to provide a robust...
by AVPA | Mar 13, 2023 | Thought Leadership
Jason Kelley and Adam Schwarz of the Electronic Frontier Foundation recently published an article arguing that “Age Verification Mandates Would Undermine Anonymity Online.” We must start by thanking them for this contribution to a debate that will only...
