by AVPA | Mar 5, 2024 | Thought Leadership
The AVPA has responded to the consultation by Ofcom on how it intends to regulate pornographic websites under Part 5 of the Online Safety Act. We were broadly supportive of their approach, but there is one major ommission – the definition of “highly...
by AVPA | Jan 17, 2024 | Thought Leadership
Since the case of Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union, 542 U.S. 656 (2004) was decided by the US Supreme Court, with a 6-3 majority agreeing that the Child Online Protection Act (1998) did not pass the strict scrutiny test used to judge obscenity cases,...
by AVPA | Jan 17, 2024 | Thought Leadership
The Spanish data protection authority, the Agencia espanola protección datos (AEPD) recently developed three proofs of concept for applying age verification on devices. One was for gaming consoles, the other two for Android and iOS based devices. The concept is...
by AVPA | Jan 11, 2024 | Thought Leadership
There has been a lively debate about the potential to use app stores to impose age restrictions. For example, a new data protection law in India requires users to be 18+ to give consent for their personal data to be shared, so there is a ubiquitous need for online...
by AVPA | Jan 9, 2024 | Thought Leadership
Last year, we helped to provide expert witness testimony for US federal courts considering whether various state laws requiring age verification, be that for pornography, social media or age-appropriate design, were constitutional. The arguments heard in court, and...
by AVPA | Jan 2, 2024 | Thought Leadership
With so much going on in the world of age verification, it is easy to overlook a topic you might wish to keep an eye on. So we maintain this graphical reminder of what we’re tracking, in the form of our AVPA...