The AVPA is a member of the euCONSENT consortium, a European Commission funded project to create a network of age verification providers so once you’ve done an age check once, it can be repeatedly used on many other websites, often without you needing to take...
Very soon, government-supported trials of new technology to check the age of customers buying alcohol, whether that is from a physical location such as a shop or a bar, or when delivered to the home, will begin around England and Wales. The first two will be found...
Oral Evidence: Online Safety Bill Subject: safety duties, encompassing anonymity, age verification and assurance We today gave evidence at a roundtable event to the Joint Committee undertaking pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Online Safety Bill. Below are our...
We were invited by Ady Dayman to explain the latest developments in Age Verification on BBC Radio Leicester – if you’d like to listen to a simple 7 minute ntroduction to the topic, listen here.
In a sign of the relative power of a multinational company can be far greater than almost any national government, Mastercard’s new policy on requirements for Non-face-to-face Adult Content and Services which comes into force on October 15 2021, will have a...
Until now, the age verification sector has only had one standard, BSI PAS 1296:2018 – “Online age checking. Provision and use of online age check services. Code of Practice” This was a firm foundation for a nascent industry but with technology...
