Publications

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...

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...

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 Radar.

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,...

In a widely syndicated article, entitled "The many ways that California’s online age-verification law is unconstitutional", Professor Eric Goldman and Dr Adrian Moore demonstrate that they are either unaware of, or choose to ignore, the state of the art in online age...

In his article "Age Verification For Porn Sites: Why It Won’t Work", in Forbes, Barry Collins sets out the case the title promises.  Here, we respond to a number of his arguments.   First, a general point: if we can put a man on the moon, we can prove your age...

As the debate about age verification intensifies with several hearings in US federal courts challenging the constitutionality of state laws requiring age assurance for adult content (e.g. , Louisiana, Utah, Texas), using social media (Arkansas), and age-approrpriate...