Failure to meet protection obligations will mean fines of up to €20 million or 10 per cent of platform’s annual turnover ...

New UK laws force Spotify to age-check users via facial scan or ID. Accounts of underage users will be deactivated and ...

Google is rolling out an AI-powered age estimation tool across its services in the US to identify users under 18. More ...

The outcome so far is an assortment of online services handling sensitive user information — a “privacy nightmare,” says Cody ...

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have railed for years against foreign regulation of US tech companies, including online safety laws. As the US fights a global tariff war, it may bring ...

The general problem of how to ensure app integrity without relying on the dominant OS providers has cropped up elsewhere.

Spotify has threatened to delete people’s accounts unless users verify their age. The music streaming app, which has nearly 700m users, said it would remove accounts that fail age estimation checks ...

Google refuses to deny that it received a demand from the UK government to install backdoor access into its services.

YouTube's age-verification move is another step in the growing age-verification push that is being hastened by the US and ...

Despite the app's honourable intentions, the latest restrictions implemented by Spotify bosses has sparked mass backlash ...

Gamers are uniquely exploiting a loophole in the UK's new age verification system by using Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding ...

At present, Xbox users "can continue to play and enjoy Xbox" without verifying their age. However, starting early 2026, age verification will be required for UK Xbox users with adult accounts to ...