by AVPA | Jan 3, 2025 | Thought Leadership
How does a constitution written over 200 years ago adapt its set of rules for governing to the age of the Internet? This is a question the US Supreme Court will tackle on January 15, when it considers if the elected representatives of the people of the Great State of...
by AVPA | Oct 28, 2024 | Thought Leadership
In spite of a great deal of legislation implying or explicitly requiring age assurance within the European Union, for the past few years, the Commission has not been clear about its vision for how this should be implemented. This has now changed, with two recent...
by AVPA | Aug 8, 2024 | Thought Leadership
The AVPA is a member of euCONSENT ASBL, a Belgium non-profit set up to take forward the work of the euCONSENT project which, with EU funding, made the first attempt to create interoperability for age verification and parental consent processes. euCONSENT has just...
by AVPA | Jul 9, 2024 | Thought Leadership
We recently had to withdraw our support from AB 3080 as a result of an Amendment accepted by the California Senate’s Judiciary Committee. We had already given evidence in person as expert witnesses proposing the Bill to both the Assembly Privacy and Consumer...
by AVPA | Jun 25, 2024 | Thought Leadership
In light of the numerous new laws passed in the USA recently, we’ve updated our comparison chart. As of June 2024, there have been 21 new laws, detailed below in alphabetical order, in three tables. 1. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana and...
by AVPA | Jun 20, 2024 | Thought Leadership
Confirming the age of children under the age of 18 is becoming an increasingly important requirement around the world in Australia, the UK, the EU and many US states, particularly for restricting younger children’s access to social media. Given children are...