In July, the United Kingdom began implementing major parts of the Online Safety Act, a law that, in the government’s words, “protects children and adults online” by putting “a range of new duties on ...

A decisive Supreme Court decision in the case of a Texas age verification law has changed the legal landscape for online speech. At least 24 states have passed some form of age verification laws, ...

Chris Fields, CMO of AI-powered age verification start-up Yoti, giving a demonstration of the company's age verification technology at their offices in London. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP via Getty ...

Texas app store age verification is on hold after a judge blocks the law that would require Apple and Google to verify users’ ...

The law was designed to protect kids from online predators and give parents more control over what kids see, but the judge ...

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Texas law that would have required age verification and parental consent for minors ...

Meta aims to roll out one age-check system for Facebook and Instagram as global child safety laws grow and pressure on tech ...

A preliminary injunction in federal court cited the First Amendment, handing a win to tech companies like Apple and Google.

Age verification laws are, in some ways, part of a years-long reckoning over child safety online, as tech companies have shown themselves unable to prevent serious harms to their most vulnerable users ...