The Dutch House of Representatives has voted to require websites that host sex-work advertisements to verify the identity and age of advertisers and of every person offered in an ad, […]

Lobbyists representing Apple and Google have sought state age-check legislation that would prevent individuals from suing app stores under those rules, leaving enforcement to state attorneys general. The lobbying involved […]

Pakistan’s telecommunications regulator has told the Islamabad High Court that it lacks the legal authority to impose mandatory age verification or prohibit social media accounts for children under 16, responding […]

Pennsylvania’s Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced an amended bill that would require age verification on certain commercial websites carrying material harmful to minors. Senate Bill 603 was reported from committee […]

Google is beginning a gradual Canadian rollout of machine-learning age assurance that estimates whether an account holder is under 18. Accounts classified as belonging to minors will receive additional protections, […]

Valve has introduced credit-card age checks for Australian Steam users who want to view store pages for its R18+ computer games and other mature content. The Steam interface now asks […]

Ireland’s media regulator has opened its first formal investigation under the country’s Online Safety Code, examining whether X has effective age-assurance measures and compliant parental controls for video content. Coimisiún […]

The UK government will introduce legislation requiring major technology platforms to build child-safety protections into smartphones and tablets, including age checks for adults who want to disable restrictions on nude […]

Ofcom has opened an enforcement program to monitor whether online platforms are deploying automated controls intended to stop illegal intimate images, including explicit AI-generated deepfakes, from being shared in the […]

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged the European Commission to accelerate an EU-wide social media ban for children under 15, renewing his push for age restrictions after France’s Constitutional Council […]