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XVideos and Bang Bros under fire from Florida for age verification

2025-08-09 Ian Fleming

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

2025-08-07 Ian Fleming

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

2025-08-04 Per Henrikson

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.

UK investigates 34 porn sites under new age-check rules

2025-07-31 Ian Fleming

Britain's media regulator on Thursday launched investigations into the compliance of four companies, which collectively run 34 pornography sites, following the country's new age-check requirement rules coming into force.

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.

UK Government to publish guidelines for Digital ID in AML Money Laundering Regulations

2025-07-23 Ian Fleming

Building upon the July 15th Financial Services Growth & Competitiveness Strategy, and with over 200 responses from industry and other stakeholders, the update outlines a series of changes designed to close loopholes, clarify requirements, and sharpen the focus of customer due diligence on higher-risk activity.

UK's Ofcom's Children's Age Verification Codes come into force this week

2025-07-23 Per Henrikson

Many adult sites currently have simple boxes for users to tick and say they're over 18 - that's no longer good enough, according to Ofcom.

New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs has delivered new digital identity rules with ‘greater choice and control’

2025-07-22 Ian Fleming

New rules support a range of documents, including photo IDs, licences and qualifications and allow digital credentials to be presented online.

Belize cabinet approves national digital ID roll out

2025-07-21 Per Henrikson

The Cabinet of Belize has given its greenlight for a countrywide rollout of a biometrics-based national digital ID system, which the government says will happen within the next three years.

‘AI generated’ labelling could become law by end 2025, communications minister says to curb scams, defamation and deepfakes

2025-07-13 Ian Fleming

The Malaysian government is considering making it a requirement to label artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content as ‘AI generated’ under the Online Safety Act 2024, which is expected to come into force by the end of this year.