The issue for the UK — and other countries seeking, belatedly, to shield minors from online harms — is making age verification work. The most foolproof methods tend to involve uploading documents or ...

What is the UK’s Online Safety Act? The premise is, we need to "protect" young people and adults online from "bad" things online (not limited to "content"). Who does this "protecting"? What are the ...

However, it does make it less surprising that the Online Safety Act does not include any requirements for businesses to ...

Spotify is tightening rules on its music streaming service to comply with a new UK age verification law — and if you don’t ...

Since the latest part of the Online Safety Act has come into force, it's come in for an increasing amount of criticism –here ...

It’s too early to know how this law will settle into full implementation, but its implications are clear: For determined kids ...

The i Paper was able to gain access to multiple dating platforms with the username 'IAMNOT18', with the NSPCC describing the findings as "deeply worrying" ...

The new rules, seen by watchdogs as a way to protect children online, have sparked a furious backlash from thousands of users ...

GTA Online to implement age verification, starting with UK players. Impacts in-game features like chat and Snapmatic, driven ...

Reform UK's Lee Anderson and Benjamin Butterworth butted heads over the new Online Safety Act, after Peter Kyle launched a ...

Spotify updates its privacy policy to include facial ID scans from Yoti for age verification for 18+ content access to comply ...

The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA) went into effect July 25, offering America a sneak peek at an age-verified ...