The Philippine Senate has approved on third and final reading a bill that would bar people under 18 from accessing or creating accounts on “high-risk” online platforms and require those […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Meta and Philippine government agencies are forming a technical working group to examine how the Philippine Identification System could support age and identity verification on the company’s online platforms. The […]

The Islamabad High Court has given four federal ministries and two regulators 15 days to respond to a petition seeking an age-verification mechanism for social media accounts held by children […]

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 […]

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 safeguards fall short could […]

New Zealand has introduced legislation that would bar under-16s from social media by requiring platforms to check the ages of their users, and it rules out letting a self-declared date […]

France’s Constitutional Council struck down the under-15 social media ban, faulting an age-verification rule that lacked privacy guarantees.