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Joint initiative of the European Commission and many industrial and other stakeholders having an interest in road safety
Governments in multiple regions now require enforced age verification for adult websites: a major wave of U.S. states have passed laws obliging sites that host “substantial” adult content to verify us...
A growing number of countries and many U.S. states now require some form of age or identity verification for social media or for access to age‑restricted online content: Australia’s law will force pla...
Fact‑checkers and academic labs detect in medical advertising by combining human-led verification of context and provenance with technical forensic tools — from supervised and unsupervised machine‑lea...
Australia has enacted and begun enforcing a world‑first law that requires major social platforms to prevent Australians under 16 from having accounts; the law took effect on 10 December 2025 and affec...
If you accidentally view potentially illegal content, most legal advisers and public resources say don’t interact with, save, or share it and report it to the platform or authorities — simply viewing ...
Australia’s law, taking effect 10 December 2025, requires major platforms to stop Australians under 16 from holding accounts or face fines up to about A$49.5m (≈US$33m) . Regulators and NGOs say this ...