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

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.

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.

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 ...

Though standard practice is to verify a user’s age based on whether they have a credit card, Ghanem said HB570 does not make it clear what would constitute sufficient compliance with the law.

The new legislation is among the world’s first to impose strict controls on tech companies, forcing social media sites to ...

PlayAI announced a strategic partnership with Reality Defender in April enabling the latter to train its tools on data generated from PlayAI’s voice models.

Fearing regulation and the need for costly new systems verifying the age of users, Meta and Spotify are among a group lobbying Washington to have Apple and Google deal with it for them.

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 ...