Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.

Age verification is becoming a significant problem for users in the UK across multiple platforms, and now Apple is the latest to join the party, forcing iPhone users on iOS 26.4 to verify their age ...

European Union officials flag VPNs as an age verification loophole. Virkkunen's remarks and AMLR rules fuel crypto privacy ...

The UK government has announced that a social media ban will come into force for those under the age of 16, blocking them from creating accounts on a variety of popular apps. It will cover a range of ...

The UK will soon propose OS-level iPhone age verification to block nude images, aiming to protect children from online explicit content. Image: Google Gemini The UK government is reportedly pushing ...

Age verification means that the sector’s biggest players will now have access to information that will only make them richer and more powerful, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz ...

UK Discord users are facing a change in how their personal data is handled as the platform prepares for its “teen-by-default” global rollout. What began as a promise of localized, device-only security ...

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Age verification started with porn and social media. Now, governments are passing laws requiring operating systems to collect your age before you can use your computer at all.