by Rebecca Burgess | Jul 9, 2026
The same way other internet laws are enforced: against the service, not the office address. Regulators can fine companies that serve their residents wherever the company sits, and where lawmakers have anticipated this challenge, escalate by requiring payment providers...
by Rebecca Burgess | Jul 9, 2026
Parents and legal guardians have an important role, and age assurance is a tool that finally makes it feasible to exercise that role effectively. Society has never applied “it’s the parents’ job” to age restricted goods anywhere else. We do not let off...
by Rebecca Burgess | Jul 9, 2026
Yes, and age assurance done properly serves those rights rather than undermining them. Age assurance should be used to restrict access to content and services that are genuinely age restricted or harmful to children, not to block children from information, advice,...
by Rebecca Burgess | Jul 9, 2026
These concerns deserve direct answers, because for someone not yet out in a hostile household, school, workplace, town, region or country, the fear of being identified is real. The best protection lies in double-blind architecture: the website never learns who you are...
by Rebecca Burgess | Jul 9, 2026
It should not, and the AVPA does not support that outcome. Age assurance should be limited to defined age restricted risks, with clear legal authority, proportionality, data minimisation and independent oversight. We do not support general purpose identity checks for...
