UK age verification is now live on Xbox, and players report being removed mid-game, locked out of chat, and unable to access ...

Microsoft’s ad networks delivered a Steam account resale advert inside Outlook, a practice against Steam's Terms of Service.

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Discord has postponed its age verification rollout to the second half of 2026, and has shared further details on what users ...

Age verification is a reality on a growing number of social media platforms, requiring an ID or facial scan for full access to everything from YouTube to Roblox. The age-gating wave is coming along ...

Now it will hold off on expansion until it adds more verification options, vendor transparency, and other changes.

Days before Discord was set to begin enforcing its divisive age verification measures globally, the popular app announces a ...

Messaging platform Discord's efforts to roll out age verification software have been nothing short of a disaster.

Discord later said it cut ties with the vendor and that it has new safeguards in place to prevent user data from being hacked as it accidentally was last fall. But the bubbling cauldron of AI ...

If an administration decides it wants fewer immigrants of a certain ethnicity, religion, race, sexual orientation, etc., it ...

The increased prevalence of age checks to access certain online services has brought increased scrutiny to the age assurance sector.