by AVPA | Jan 17, 2024 | Thought Leadership
Since the case of Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union, 542 U.S. 656 (2004) was decided by the US Supreme Court, with a 6-3 majority agreeing that the Child Online Protection Act (1998) did not pass the strict scrutiny test used to judge obscenity cases,...
by AVPA | Jan 11, 2024 | Thought Leadership
There has been a lively debate about the potential to use app stores to impose age restrictions. For example, a new data protection law in India requires users to be 18+ to give consent for their personal data to be shared, so there is a ubiquitous need for online...
by AVPA | Jan 9, 2024 | Thought Leadership
Last year, we helped to provide expert witness testimony for US federal courts considering whether various state laws requiring age verification, be that for pornography, social media or age-appropriate design, were constitutional. The arguments heard in court, and...
by AVPA | Jan 2, 2024 | Thought Leadership
With so much going on in the world of age verification, it is easy to overlook a topic you might wish to keep an eye on. So we maintain this graphical reminder of what we’re tracking, in the form of our AVPA...
by AVPA | Dec 29, 2023 | Thought Leadership
As we begin the second century in which society has imposed age restrictions to protect children from harm – it was in 1923 that the UK Parliament passed the “Intoxicating Liquor (Sale to Persons under Eighteen) Act” – the AVPA predicts 2024 will be the year we,...