Age Veri fication Providers Association

The global trade body for the providers of privacy-protecting, standards-based age assurance technology (Age Verification and Age Estimation)

[Age Veri fication Providers Association @The_AVPA]

UAE: Platforms have been given a 12-month grace period, until mid-2027, to fully implement the required compliance measures.

https://t.co/WqlTfL7u5Z

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2026 Age Assurance & Digital Age Credentials Market Report published by @goodeintel and @BiometricUpdate

An excellent reference resource on the current state of play in age assurance.

https://t.co/1sR5N2TlDM

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EU Charges TikTok: Default Settings Expose Minors to Strangers and Predators
The European Commission concluded that TikTok’s default account configurations for minors breach the Digital Services Act — not because the platform lacks safety features, but because the design of those features allows children to undermine them with minimal effort
https://t.co/66cSjqEocQ

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Social media companies have failed to enforce their minimum age requirements: Ofcom https://t.co/7jtGxVblQG via @BiometricUpdate

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Lawsuit alleges Roblox misled investors about age assurance, $6.7B loss https://t.co/h8yjXkRGaG via @BiometricUpdate

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UK gov’t proceeding with https://t.co/QKOdSnIPM9 and private sector digital ID plans as DSIT closes https://t.co/uXM1dSNJHg via @BiometricUpdate

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The UK national digital ID is dead, long live the UK digital ID! https://t.co/gljlZraadM via @BiometricUpdate

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The 5th Circuit largely upheld an injunction against parts of Texas’s SCOPE Act, but not its targeted-advertising or age-verification provisions. It kept the law’s content-monitoring and filtering mandate blocked, finding it pre-empted by Section 230.
https://t.co/ovbGYrAlbo.

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Digital Safety Act seen as unconstitutional, unworkable

@mgeist
https://t.co/qiQO7FPrjz

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From September, people under 15 will not be able to open accounts and age verification will be required on all new accounts

In January 2027, this rule will apply to all existing accounts - meaning everyone in France will have to prove they are over 15 to use social media

Some detail required on scope, methods and non-account access, but hopefully a wide range of age assurance options will be on offer to ensure inclusion and accessibility.

https://t.co/FjKcAGwe5E

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Lawsuit alleges Roblox misled investors about age assurance, $6.7B loss https://t.co/h8yjXkSe0e via @BiometricUpdate

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Social media companies have failed to enforce their minimum age requirements: Ofcom https://t.co/7jtGxVbTGe via @BiometricUpdate

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Key Strategies for Building an Effective Website Compliance Program

The adult industry should take that as a design principle: collect the least data needed, retain it for the shortest defensible period, and avoid building databases of sensitive identity documents unless there is a clear legal and business necessity. @WebsiteAttorney

https://t.co/LECPtkbKDc via @xbiz

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The organizations have won injunctions blocking the laws in several, suits, but attorneys tracking the litigation say appellate courts have been more willing than trial courts to let the laws stand while the cases proceed
https://t.co/ZjjEMTl8L3

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Check out this article: France Puts Under-15 Social-Media Restrictions to Final Vote After EU-Law Rewrite - https://t.co/OHXayvgbR1

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@speakukorg Discord were mistakenly using their existing customer services database to handle appeals to initial age assurance decisions. That database did not adopt the data minimisation principle that requires age assurance systems to delete any personal data after age-range is established

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Senate AI and Kids Safety Package Won’t Justify Preempting State AI Laws https://t.co/kuCl37PMqz via @CenDemTech

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Our point is deliberately reductio ad absurdum - regulation which only works where the regulated service volunteers to comply is not effective regulation. If a basic IP block removes an offshore service from jurisdiction despite predictable VPN access, the underlying enforcement principle is seriously weakened.