Roblox Agrees to Integrate the Philippine National ID Into Its Age Checks
Roblox has agreed to integrate the Philippine Identification System into its age and identity verification for users in the country, according to the…
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Brazil Sues Discord Over Age Verification Failures, a Day After Fining TikTok
Brazil has sued Discord for $97 million, saying the chat platform still shows flaws in the mechanisms it uses to check how old its users are. The public civil…
Slovak Government Approves Under-16 Social Media Ban
Slovakia’s government approved a bill on Wednesday that would stop under-16s from creating social media accounts and require platforms to verify the ages of…
Meta Settlement Puts Age Assurance and Under-13 Removal Under an Independent Auditor
Meta must run what California calls robust age assurance to detect users under 18, identify and remove children under 13, and open those practices to an…
Singapore to Require Robust Age Checks on Social Media Platforms
Singapore will require social media platforms to run robust and reliable age checks rather than accept a user’s word, and has told them that platforms whose…
AI Update: The Frontier Hits Pause
AI Update August 21, 2026 Security and identity briefing OpenAI paused part of its newest-model training, Anthropic kept a more capable system inside the lab,…
France’s Constitutional Council Strikes Down Under-15 Social Media Ban
France’s Constitutional Council struck down the under-15 social media ban, faulting an age-verification rule that lacked privacy guarantees.
San Francisco Bars Pause PatronScan Facial Recognition After Boycott Campaign
Two San Francisco bars have paused their use of PatronScan following a boycott campaign focused on the identity system’s facial recognition and patron-data…
Ontario Fines Betty Gaming $120,000 Over Age-Check Failure
Ontario’s gaming regulator has ordered monetary penalties totaling $120,000 against Betty Gaming after a vulnerability in Betty.ca’s age-verification controls…
iDenfy Adds Facial Age Estimation With Document Fallback
iDenfy’s new facial age estimation module uses a live selfie for clear cases and routes users near the threshold to a document check.