by AVPA | Jun 12, 2026 | Thought Leadership
The EU Age Verification App was designed with a specific purpose: to demonstrate to adult-only services – pornography platforms, gambling sites, alcohol retailers – that there was a technically feasible, GDPR-compliant mechanism to implement an 18+ minimum...
by AVPA | Jun 10, 2026 | News Release
On 10th June, the BBC’s Dharshini David interviewed Australian communications minister, Annika Wells on Radio 4’s Today Programme. Listen in full below: The Minister argued that resistance from major technology companies was entirely predictable. If...
by AVPA | Jun 7, 2026 | Thought Leadership
Opponents of age verification have long reached for a familiar argument: that checking someone’s age before they access online content is really an identity check in disguise. The claim is that platforms will inevitably end up knowing who you are, that anonymity...
by AVPA | Jun 2, 2026 | Thought Leadership
Proposed amendments to California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (DAAA) to remove open source operating systems from its scope are welcome. The original drafting inadvertently captured a range of open source projects that have little practical ability to implement...
by AVPA | Jun 1, 2026 | Thought Leadership
The Spanish Data Protection Authority, the AEPD, has recently issued a decision that, if upheld on appeal and followed by other EU data protection authorities, would have profound consequences for the security of digital identity technology across Europe and for the...
