As we begin the second century in which society has imposed age restrictions to protect children from harm – it was in 1923 that the UK Parliament passed the “Intoxicating Liquor (Sale to Persons under Eighteen) Act” – the AVPA predicts 2024 will be the year we,...
In a widely syndicated article, entitled “The many ways that California’s online age-verification law is unconstitutional”, Professor Eric Goldman and Dr Adrian Moore demonstrate that they are either unaware of, or choose to ignore, the state of the art in...
The federal district court in Austin, Texas has granted an injunction preventing Texas Bill 1181 coming into force on September 1 2023. The Bill required age verification for online pornography, and the publication of defined health warnings. This judgement provides...
In his article “Age Verification For Porn Sites: Why It Won’t Work”, in Forbes, Barry Collins sets out the case the title promises. Here, we respond to a number of his arguments. First, a general point: if we can put a man on the moon, we can prove...
As the debate about age verification intensifies with several hearings in US federal courts challenging the constitutionality of state laws requiring age assurance for adult content (e.g. , Louisiana, Utah, Texas), using social media (Arkansas), and age-approrpriate...
The Association submitted feedback to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the USA on their plans to offer testing for facial age estimation. We welcomed the decision to provide test protocols for Age Estimation Technologies, and made the...
