Viewing adult content now requires age verification within the United Kingdom. The UK's Online Safety Act went into effect late last week, causing many to see prompts to scan their own face or scan an ...

Twitch users in the United Kingdom are facing a dramatic new requirement that has ignited fierce debate about privacy, security and online freedom. The popular streaming platform now mandates facial ...

In July, Siyan, a UK-based Discord user, logged on one morning and found himself unable to access some of his text chats marked NSFW. The channel, a popup informed him, was now age-restricted. The ...

Today saw the full introduction of the requirements outlined in the Online Safety Act in the UK, requiring "robust" age checks for users to access adult content online. People have already managed to ...

Scanning a face to guess its age is likely to be a major part of the “waterfall” of methods used to comply with the social ...

If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph ...

Roblox, a popular gaming platform that’s faced growing scrutiny over child safety concerns, said Tuesday it will require users to verify their age if they want to chat with other players. To do so, ...

Age verification laws are rapidly proliferating around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about ...

Technologists and policymakers are reckoning with a generation-defining problem on the internet: While it can be a revolutionary force for unprecedented education and connection across the globe, it ...

As the social media ban for under 16s comes into effect, the tech company that is verifying ages for popular messaging app Snapchat says its methods are safe, but cybersecurity experts say any time ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Roblox, a popular gaming platform that’s faced growing scrutiny over child safety concerns, said Tuesday it will ...