by AVPA | Jun 26, 2026 | Thought Leadership
A study published in the BMJ on 24 June 2026 looked at what actually happened to Australian teenagers in the three months after the Social Media Minimum Age Act came into force in December 2025. The headline conclusion has been widely reported as proof that age...
by AVPA | Jun 12, 2026 | Thought Leadership
The EU Age Verification App was initially designed with a specific purpose: to demonstrate to adult-only services – pornography platforms in particular – that there was a technically feasible, GDPR-compliant mechanism to implement an 18+ minimum age. And...
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...
