by AVPA | Mar 22, 2024 | Thought Leadership
Perhaps the most frequent concern raised about age verification is a risk to privacy. But the essence of age assurance is the ability to prove your age online WITHOUT disclosing your identity. Our industry would not exist were there not the absolute need to preserve...
by AVPA | Mar 19, 2024 | Thought Leadership
We were pleased to see the response from the Free Speech Coalition to Ofcom’s consultation on Part 5 of the Online Safety Act as it gives us the opportunity to clarify some potential misunderstandings and provide some reassurance, particularly to the many...
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 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...