Legal

U.S. Treasury Department is proposing integration of identity verification mechanisms into decentralized smart contracts

2025-08-25 Ian Fleming

Bluesky blocks Mississippi due to its new age verification law

2025-08-23 Ian Fleming

U.S. pushes digital identity as cornerstone of crypto ambitions

2025-08-18 Ian Fleming

Zooming in on AI: Tackling deepfakes around the world

2025-08-17 Ian Fleming

Deepfakes (also known as digital replicas) are created when sophisticated AI technology generates or alters audio-visual content to misrepresent someone or something.

Wikipedia May Have To Impose Identity Verification On Readers

2025-08-12 Per Henrikson

The Wikimedia Foundation has lost its legal battle in the U.K to avoid having to verify the identity of its readers. At issue were the provisions of the Online Safety Act, which imposes new rules on the content of online platforms, to be managed by regulator Ofcom.

GTA 6 Age Verification System Unveiled Ahead of Launch

2025-08-10 Ian Fleming

With the harsher crackdown on images of sex and violence in front of young and impressionable players, GTA Online will soon require age verification to access the game.

XVideos and Bang Bros under fire from Florida for age verification

2025-08-09 Ian Fleming

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has sued the parent companies of XVideos, XNXX, Bang Bros, Girls Gone Wild, and TrafficFactory for violating a law that requires pornography sites to verify that visitors are 18 years old “using an anonymous or standard“.

Philippines' Bangko Sentral Pilipinas is finalising new regulations to protect from the risks linked to online gambling

2025-08-07 Ian Fleming

A key component of the new measures is the implementation of stricter identity verification processes.

NIST Revision 4. digital ID guidelines issue clear guidelines to embrace dynamic ID systems

2025-08-04 Per Henrikson

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published Revision 4 of its Digital Identity Guidelines (SP 800-63), the first full update since 2017 to the foundational framework for federal identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) systems.

The 10 biggest sites you didn't realise are impacted by age verification – and how each will verify your age

2025-08-03 Per Henrikson

From Friday, July 25, mandatory age verification requirements became the latest implementation of the 2023 Online Safety Act – a move already amassing strong criticism, with over 420,000 Brits calling to repeal the Act.

U.K. starts enforcing online age check rules

2025-07-26 Per Henrikson

A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday.

Forty-seven US states have enacted deepfake legislation since 2019

2025-07-23 Ian Fleming

Since 2019, the clearest acceleration of legislative action on deepfakes happened in 2024. Eighty-two percent of the bills enacted since 2019 were enacted in 2024 or 2025. As of July 10, state lawmakers had adopted 64 laws related to deepfakes this year, up from the 52 laws enacted as of the same date in 2024.