by AVPA | May 5, 2026 | Thought Leadership
Internet Matters published quantitative and qualitative research titled “The Online Safety Act: Are children safer online?” which provides valuable evidence about how age assurance is working in practice for families. At a glance, it may give the...
by AVPA | Apr 28, 2026 | News Release
The AVPA, the global trade association representing 35 providers of age assurance technology, has written to the UK Competition & Markets Authority, concerned by government plans documented in its consultation on digital ID to move into the private sector market,...
by AVPA | Apr 24, 2026 | Thought Leadership
The Parents Over Platforms Act was named backwards. It claims to put parents in control. The irony is that the platforms this proposed US Federal bill targets need do almost nothing new to comply with it, leaving parents no better off than today — while the Big Tech...
by AVPA | Apr 24, 2026 | Thought Leadership
The European Union’s age verification ‘app’ (aka ‘blueprint’) is beginning to attract attention, and with that scrutiny has come a degree of confusion about what it is, what it does and how it fits into the wider age assurance ecosystem....
by AVPA | Apr 22, 2026 | Thought Leadership
AI needs more than Age Inference to protect kids. Every major AI assistant available to the public today primarily relies on inference and self-attestation to assess whether a user might be a minor (and this is also the initial strategy being adopted by most social...
