Topic
Age Verification
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Regulatory Oversight
Alabama Enacts App Store Accountability Act Requiring Age Verification and Parental Consent
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team
What Happened States including Texas, Utah, Louisiana, and California have begun shifting children’s online safety obligations from individual apps and websites to app stores and operating systems. These laws generally…
Michael Geist
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 261: Ian Goldberg on the Privacy Risks of Age Assurance Technologies
Age verification, estimation or inference is seemingly all the rage right now. Vendors are promoting it as the solution to thorny challenges to limit access to certain sites and services…
Taft Privacy & Data Security Insights
Collection for Protection: The Age-Verification Paradox
From California to Texas to Ohio, lawmakers are increasingly turning to age-verification requirements to protect children online. These laws target a range of concerns, with a growing body of research…
Truth on the Market
COPPA, Age Verification, and the FTC’s Enforcement End Run
By Ben Sperry
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a new plan to “protect children online.” It starts by relaxing enforcement of the very privacy law designed to protect them. In a new…
Consumer Protection Connection
FTC Issues COPPA Enforcement Policy Statement Promoting Age-Verification Technology
By Sheila Millar, Tracy Marshall, Anushka R. Stein
On February 25, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released an important children’s privacy enforcement discretion statement: COPPA – Enforcement Policy Statement Promoting the Adoption of Age-Verification Technology. Age verification…
Consumer Protection Insights
FTC Signals Relaxed COPPA Enforcement for Age-Verification Technologies
By Timothy A. Butler, Matthew White, Tessa Cierny, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
The Federal Trade Commission remains focused on children’s privacy and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
Data Privacy Dish
FTC Signals Relaxed COPPA Enforcement for Age-Verification Technologies
By Timothy A. Butler, Matthew White
The Federal Trade Commission remains focused on children’s privacy and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
Ogletree Deakins Insights
FTC Releases COPPA Policy Statement Promoting Age Verification Technology
On February 25, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an Enforcement Policy Statement Promoting the Adoption of Age-Verification Technology signaling a significant shift in its enforcement approach under the…
The Data Advisor
FTC Promotes Age Verification in Children’s Privacy Enforcement Statement
By Christopher Olsen, Maneesha Mithal, Rebecca Weitzel Garcia
On February 25, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an enforcement statement to promote the use of age verification technologies on the heels of its January 28 workshop on the topic. The workshop…
Privacy Matters
U.S.: FTC Issues COPPA Policy Statement to Incentivize the Use of Age Verification Technologies to Protect Children Online
The FTC just released a policy statement regarding enforcement activities related to COPPA, which can be found at this link. According to Christopher Mufarrige, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of…