The government has published a consultation on its plans for the creation of a digital identity and attributes trust framework. This is a project that replaces the government Verify scheme which had the ambition to provide every UK citizen with a single login to...
AVPA Co-Chair, Alastair Graham, CEO and Founder of AgeChecked, reviews the latest piece of legislation being presented to the UK Parliament… Last month, the UK published its long awaited Online Safety Bill. The Bill creates a new duty of care on websites and...
The phrase “lies, damn lies and statistics” was, we learn from Wikipedia, most likely derived from the legal profession. According to an article in the journal, Nature, written in November 1885: “A well-known lawyer, now a judge, once grouped...
On 12 May 2021, HM Government published Command Paper 405, a draft of the Online Safety Bill to allow a joint committee of members from both Houses of Parliament to undertake pre-legislative scrutiny. This committee is expected to complete its work by the summer...
Last week, the UK government published its Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework. You have to read no further than the second paragraph of Minister Matt Warman’s introduction before appreciating that this document is highly relevant to age verification. ...
Looking forward to 2021, it is certainly going to be a pivotal year for the age verification sector. I thought I would take this opportunity to look into a crystal ball and sketch out how the year may play out. And, of course, thanks to the indelibility of the...
