A preliminary injunction in federal court cited the First Amendment, handing a win to tech companies like Apple and Google. By Ryan Mac Ryan Mac reports on technology. A federal judge on Tuesday ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has tapped ID.me to verify the identities of beneficiaries on Medicare.gov, according to a Tuesday announcement from the identity-proofing company. ID.me ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reddit is starting a limited test of verified profiles, which places a grey checkmark beside the username of a notable person or business. “This feature is designed to help redditors understand who ...

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 ...

Missouri residents will be required to verify they are older than 18 before accessing adult-only content online by the end of November. Websites and apps in which more than one-third of the material ...

The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know. By Jenny Gross The online gaming platform Roblox this week rolled out a new ...

Roblox is in a tight spot. After years of reports involving child predators on Roblox, the company faces pressure from the public and government to clean up its platform. The company's solution, ...

From Spotify to YouTube, platforms now demand biometric proof of age. Experts warn that you could lose access—and your privacy—if the algorithms get it wrong. I've been covering the tech industry, ...

The cybersecurity community has long lived by a simple principle: Don't collect more data than you can protect. But ID laws and other legal mandates now force many organizations to store massive ...

Age verification is rolling out in the Google Play Store. Users will have several methods to prove their age. Access to apps is limited until they verify their age. Several months after AI-powered age ...