Examining the Rights Implications of Age Assurance Requirements
Within the past two years, more than 40 countries have considered, passed, and begun to implement laws that ban or restrict children from social media as a response to a range of online harms to children.
End of Online Anonymity? Identity Check Fears Under New Digital Laws
Privacy and free speech advocates fear Australians could be forced to verify their identities to use social media under the Albanese government’s proposed overhaul of online safety laws, which would require technology companies to identify and minimise harms across their services.
Louisiana App Store Age Law Delayed to 2027 as ID Breach Pattern Grows
Today was supposed to be the day Louisiana became the third U.S. state to enforce app store age verification — requiring Apple and Google to confirm every user's age before allowing app downloads and linking minors' accounts to their parents...
NCAC Urges Fifth Circuit to Uphold Block on Texas App Store Age Verification Law
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), represented by the SMU Dedman School of Law First Amendment Clinic, filed an amicus brief this week in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the consolidated cases of Students Engaged in Advancing Texas v. Paxton and Computer & Communications Industry Association v. Paxton...
The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 5511, which imposes a sweeping, device-level age-gating framework across nearly all internet-enabled hardware, operating systems, and online services. This well-intentioned but deeply flawed piece of legislation will harm young people who rely on the internet to access essential information and find community. That’s why we’re urging the Illinois governor to veto the measure.
Federal Judge Blocks Nebraska’s Social Media Age Verification Law From Going Into Effect in July
A federal judge ruled that multiple components of a Nebraska law aimed at protecting children online likely violate the First Amendment and blocked them from going into effect in July.
There seems to be broad agreement that parents deserve better tools to protect their children online, yet how to do this seems to be a huge question right now. With Congress weighing a slew of potential proposals, I have noticed one in particular that could be a game changer: the Parents Over Platforms Act (POPA).
Stop Killing the Internet: Inside the Global Movement that Wants to Save the Open Web
When the soon-to-be ex-British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, told the nation last week that a full social media ban for all under-16s from social media was “the right choice" for the country, a group of people was watching closely, and thinking about what to do next.
