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6 articles covering "age-verification"
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 22-0 to advance the GUARD Act, which would ban AI companion chatbots for users under 18 and impose penalties of up to $250,000 per violation.
The European Commission issued preliminary findings on April 29 that Meta violated the DSA by allowing children under 13 to create accounts using false birth dates, with potential fines reaching 6% of its global turnover.
The Commission says its new age-verification app is ready for deployment, but researchers and privacy advocates are already flagging security and platform-dependence concerns.
The House advanced the 12-bill KIDS Act on a party-line vote, the Senate passed COPPA 2.0 unanimously, and the Ninth Circuit revived California's design code, setting up a collision between federal preemption and state enforcement.
The FTC will not enforce COPPA against companies collecting children's data solely for age verification, even as sweeping new rules on biometrics, data retention, and parental consent take effect April 22.
Discord will default all users to a teen-appropriate experience in early March, gating adult features behind facial age estimation or government ID verification.