What began as an effort to bolster kids’ safety online has morphed in recent months into a broader debate over privacy and anonymity on the internet. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

Across the country, lawmakers are making the Internet more age restricted, with age verification mandates on social media and ...

Two pupils look at their smartphones in a classroom in Hamburg, Germany, on Feb. 13, 2026. Reporter The European Union is giving tech companies no more excuses to implement age checks for social media ...

A new survey found that kids find it easy to bypass age checks, despite a rise in age verification laws around the world.

According to a new report from the UK nonprofit Internet Matters, children are already finding ways around the ...

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 ...

Learn how age verification works, what data it collects, and the privacy risks parents should understand before their teens ...

EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said that the privacy measures will be built on a cryptographic method called zero-knowledge proofs, and that the app would be open-source, adding that private companies ...

The owner of PornHub is suing Utah to stop the enforcement of its newest age verification law. Utah has required adult ...