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Age Verification
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Michael Geist Blog
Has the Government Read Its Own Bill? What Three Days of House Debate Revealed About Bill C-34 Before the Committee Hearings Begin
Bill C-34, which would ban social media accounts for under-16s, is now before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, which just approved plans to hold at least 16 hours of…
Michael Geist Blog
Ofcom Did the Work Canada Plans to Skip: What the UK’s Age Verification Report Reveals About the Bill C-34 Social Media Ban
The most contentious aspect of the government’s Bill C-34 social media ban for under-16s is that millions of Canadians will need mandated age verification to create social media accounts. The…
Michael Geist Blog
The Age Verification Bill That Won’t Die: How Bill S-209 Complicates the Government’s Bill C-34 Online Safety Plan
Bill C-34, the government’s Safe Social Media Act, was touted as its approach to online age verification, adding a mandated age check for social media account creation for those under-16…
Data Privacy Dish
EU KIDS Act: Proposed EU Rules for Online Platforms, Age Verification, and AI Chatbots
By Laura Zentner, Dr. Philip Radlanski
On Sept. 17, 2026, the European Commission proposed the EU KIDS Act, a new regulation intended to strengthen protections for minors using digital services and AI systems. The EU KIDS…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Some New Data on Age Authentication Balk Rates
By Eric Goldman
Created by ChatGPT May 2026 The issue is: if a website imposes a government-compelled age authentication wall, what percentage of users will stop at the authentication wall, either because the…
EU Law Analysis
How to balance freedom of expression and child protection in the digital age? A comparative legal analysis
By stevepeerseulawanalysis-blogspot-com
Mohammed Abbas Mohsin, PhD in Public Law, Diplomatic advisor Photo credit: San Jose Public Library, via Wikimedia Commons Abstract This blog post presents a comparative legal analysis of…
The Data Advisor
European Commission Proposes “EU KIDS Act” to Restrict Children’s Access to Online Services
By Cédric Burton, Rossana Fol, Tom Evans, Michaela Novakova
On September 17, 2026, the European Commission (EC) published a proposed “EU KIDS Act,” which would impose minimum-age requirements to access social media and video-sharing platforms, subject to mandatory age…
Mike McBride Online
153 Million Drivers Licenses for Sale – You’ll Never Guess Where They Came From
By Mike McBride
This should, but won't, end the discussion about the safety of age verification laws. What privacy advocates warned would happen as we continued to force everyone to verify their identity…
Michael Geist Blog
Big Money, Bigger Design Changes: What the Meta Settlement Means for Canada, Bill C-34, and the Age Verification and Privacy Risks That Remain
The proposed settlement between Meta and 51 U.S. state attorneys general, filed last week and still subject to court approval, ranks among the biggest developments in technology litigation in years,…
JURIST
Brazil sues Discord over alleged shortcomings in youth safety policies
By Ben Golin | U. Nevada School Of Law, US
Brazil’s federal government on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Discord, Inc., accusing the messaging platform of violating national child protection laws. The Brazilian attorney general’s office, the Advocacia-Geral da Union…