A federal judge in 2024 temporarily blocked Utah's first-in-the-nation law requiring social media companies to check the ages of all users and place restrictions on accounts belonging to minors.

The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law aimed at blocking children under 18 from seeing online pornography by requiring websites to verify the ages of all visitors. Many states have passed similar ...

Meta, Spotify, and Match Group form a DC lobby to challenge Apple and Google over age verification. ... The law requires age checks for sites with explicit content. 06/27/2025 ...

In Louisiana, for instance, a bill passed committee which would require Google and Apple to verify the age of users and confirm parental consent for anyone under age 18, which would alleviate app ...

The easiest way to embed age verification into a phone is to see if the user can actually make or receive a phone call.

The company uses age-verification methods to check the ages of its users, but O’Connor said there’s an increased need for public policy to strengthen the verification methods.

The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines ...

The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines on the line as states rapidly pass conflicting laws requiring companies to ...

A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit US Court of Appeals overruled a decision by a federal district judge to block the 2024 law from going into effect.

PlayAI announced a strategic partnership with Reality Defender in April enabling the latter to train its tools on data ...

Texas’ age-verification law is a big deal in its own right. With more than 30 million people, Texas is increasingly wielding a California-like power to help set the national tech policy agenda.