As governments begin introducing laws that could require operating systems to collect user age data, MX Linux is joining a ...

New U.S laws designed for online child safety are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates that often use AI technology, and causing major headaches for social media ...

Hackers have revealed that parts of Discord's new age verification system were effectively exposed to the public after the frontend code for third-party vendor Persona was left accessible on the open ...

Among the players already visible in the European market for age verification are Yoti, which TikTok is using in Europe for ...

Platforms must store biometric data, ID images, and verification logs long enough to defend their decisions to regulators. So if an adult who is tired of submitting selfies to verify their age finally ...

James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...

Identity verification (IDV) is shifting from a single checkpoint to an ongoing process, as digital identities are reused ...

So I haven't really paid attention to privacy laws and whatnot regarding online activity lately, but I didn't know this was even a thing, let alone law that has passed in California (effective Jan of ...

In cases when regulators demand real enforcement rather than symbolic rules, platforms run into a basic technical problem. The only way to prove that someone is old enough to use a site is to collect ...