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...
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...
The Age Verification Providers Association has submitted a response to the government’s national consultation, ‘Growing Up in the Online World’, which will inform legislation expected to set new requirements for social media platforms, AI chatbots...
The announcement that Pornhub has reopened access to UK iPhone users following Apple’s iOS 26.4 update has been greeted in some quarters as a breakthrough moment for device-based age assurance. It is not. What has occurred is the emergence of a partial ecosystem-level...
