In addition to banning smartphones in high schools, a new law aims to block the youngest from accessing social media ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

Roblox is making a massive change that every parent and grandparent needs to know about. In an effort to improve child safety, the platform is introducing a mandatory "video selfie" verification ...

I traveled to Roblox's headquarters to do a demo of a new safety feature it says will help protect child users.

Chris Fields, CMO of AI-powered age verification start-up Yoti, giving a demonstration of the company's age verification technology at their offices in London. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP via Getty ...

Age-verification laws are sweeping the world. These mandates typically require websites that host explicit content — and some that don't — to obtain personal data from visitors to ensure they're over ...

App age verification isn’t just a theoretical concept being debated in Congress. A number of laws have already passed that require platforms to verify age for users in select states. For example, the ...

Porn has taken a hit in the UK in the wake of the introduction of compulsory age verification this year, according to communications regulator Ofcom. VPN usage more than doubled, while porn viewership ...

Over the past two years, age verification has moved from a narrow regulatory concern to a structural change affecting how the internet operates. Governments across the U.S., Europe, and parts of Asia ...

A federal judge has blocked Louisiana from enforcing a 2023 law requiring social media companies to verify the age of users, obtain parental consent and provide parental controls, saying it violates ...