by AVPA | Aug 24, 2023 | Thought Leadership
As the debate about age verification intensifies with several hearings in US federal courts challenging the constitutionality of state laws requiring age assurance for adult content (e.g. , Louisiana, Utah, Texas), using social media (Arkansas), and age-approrpriate...
by AVPA | Aug 8, 2023 | Thought Leadership
The Association submitted feedback to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the USA on their plans to offer testing for facial age estimation. We welcomed the decision to provide test protocols for Age Estimation Technologies, and made the...
by AVPA | Jul 10, 2023 | Thought Leadership
We were pleased to speak to Times Radio about this article by Mark Sellman, their Technology Correspondent. Listen to the 7 minute discussion here....
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,...