TikTok has agreed to strengthen age assurance and add restrictions for young users under a settlement with Alabama that will bring the state at least $100 million. The agreement resolves […]

Philippine government agencies have opened a public-private discussion on using the PhilSys national identity system to verify the ages of social-media users. The Department of Information and Communications Technology and […]

Microsoft has documented a set of Windows 11 APIs that will tell a registered application which age bracket the signed-in user falls into, and whether that age has been independently […]

Roblox has agreed to integrate the Philippine Identification System into its age and identity verification for users in the country, according to the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center. The commitment […]

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 action […]

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 the people signing up. It still […]

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 independent auditor, under a […]

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has accepted a court-enforceable undertaking from Roblox requiring an independent audit of its age-estimation measures.

Discord must extend age-assurance and default child-safety controls already offered to users in the United Kingdom to accounts identified as belonging to Texas residents, under an agreed temporary injunction entered […]