Proposed amendments to California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (DAAA) to remove open source operating systems from its scope are welcome. The original drafting inadvertently captured a range of open source projects that have little practical ability to implement...
The Spanish Data Protection Authority, the AEPD, has recently issued a decision that, if upheld on appeal and followed by other EU data protection authorities, would have profound consequences for the security of digital identity technology across Europe and for the...
The announcement that Pornhub has reopened access to UK iPhone users following Apple’s iOS 26.4 update has been greeted in some quarters as a breakthrough moment for device-based age assurance. It is not. What has occurred is the emergence of a partial ecosystem-level...
Internet Matters published quantitative and qualitative research titled “The Online Safety Act: Are children safer online?” which provides valuable evidence about how age assurance is working in practice for families. At a glance, it may give the...
The Parents Over Platforms Act was named backwards. It claims to put parents in control. The irony is that the platforms this proposed US Federal bill targets need do almost nothing new to comply with it, leaving parents no better off than today — while the Big Tech...
The European Union’s age verification ‘app’ (aka ‘blueprint’) is beginning to attract attention, and with that scrutiny has come a degree of confusion about what it is, what it does and how it fits into the wider age assurance ecosystem....
