by AVPA | Aug 17, 2026 | Thought Leadership
This week’s Senate committee hearing into the social media minimum age ban confirmed what AVPA documented in our Lessons Learned report published in April: the platforms are not using the wide range of age assurance options they could adopt. So this news of a...
by AVPA | Aug 7, 2026 | Thought Leadership
On 6 August 2026, Judge Biedscheid of the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe issued his findings of fact, conclusions of law and judgement in State of New Mexico v Meta Platforms, Inc. The case had been brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez,...
by AVPA | Jul 30, 2026 | Thought Leadership
A prominent adult platform network recently published an open letter to US lawmakers arguing that site-level age verification laws have failed. In its place, the letter proposes that lawmakers mandate Apple, Google and Microsoft to build device-level age checks into...
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...
