Age verification is coming for app stores.Laws requiring Google and Apple to check people’s ages before they can download ...

YouTube is testing a new age verification system in the US to protect young users, prompted by concerns over loopholes like ...

Google says its machine learning (ML) tool will look at the searches made by the user and videos watched on YouTube.

Two major digital platforms are implementing new age verification measures as governments tighten controls on children’s online access, with Spotify requiring facial scans in the UK and YouTube being ...

Under the new Online Safety Act regulations, websites hosting content which could be harmful to those under 18 must now carry ...

The platform owned by cartoonish billionaire Elon Musk has lost its challenge against regulatory body Coimisiún na Meán’s ...

The outcome so far is an assortment of online services handling sensitive user information — a “privacy nightmare,” says Cody ...

The general problem of how to ensure app integrity without relying on the dominant OS providers has cropped up elsewhere.

The streaming platform is implementing a facial scan process in partnership with Yoti, which also provides its services to ...

There are many questions around how age verification works in practise and what its consequences could be for our online ...

Spotify has stated that, if you don’t pass their age checks, your account will be deleted in a move that could affect ...

In the case of Spotify, Yoti will ask the account owner to show their face to their phone and then use algorithms to estimate ...