TikTok users in the US are starting to notice something unusual: a new age verification system that’s quietly making its way ...

Some TikTok users say they have been flagged by an age verification system the platform is now rolling out in the US.

YouTube is introducing a new feature that will use artificial intelligence to estimate users’ ages. The update, which takes effect on 13 August 2025, aims to provide a safer and more suitable ...

I kept following the blue dot on Find My Friends but it just didn’t make sense. My then 15-year old son was at the Mets game ...

"The road to online hell is paved with good intentions," said Melisa Tourt in The Critic – as we're discovering, now that the ...

Canada is taking it place in the increasingly-crowded queue to implement online age assurance requirements, with a national ...

YouTube is officially rolling out its AI-assisted age verification next week to catch users who lie about their age. YouTube ...

A coalition of educators, writers, and sex-related businesses lost their challenge to Montana’s age verification law for websites that “knowingly and intentionally” distribute “material harmful to ...

Today’s top leaders are recognizing that privacy-conscious approaches offer advantages beyond fraud reduction.

Age verification service providers handle highly sensitive information, but there are some important differences about how ...

There has been a buzz around a not-so-new initiative from Google and YouTube that would put age verification in ...

In 2025, the European Commission took the first steps towards creating an EU-wide strategy for age verification on websites ...