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 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...
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...
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...
