For consumers attempting to stream content marked as 18+, the Spotify face scan is a new hurdle: prove your age or press stop ...

It comes after The Standard revealed that at least 30 sites were still showing adult material without asking viewers for ...

Spotify is the latest app to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, with users being asked to verify their age in order to ...

From Friday 25 July 2025 UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social media platforms such as X, Reddit and Bluesky to dating apps like Grindr to ...

But the trend is getting pushback from Apple and Google, which run the biggest app marketplaces, as well as from civil ...

The platform owned by cartoonish billionaire Elon Musk has lost its challenge against regulatory body Coimisiún na Meán’s ...

The outcome so far is an assortment of online services handling sensitive user information — a “privacy nightmare,” says Cody ...

The general problem of how to ensure app integrity without relying on the dominant OS providers has cropped up elsewhere.

Spotify has threatened to delete people’s accounts unless users verify their age. The music streaming app, which has nearly 700m users, said it would remove accounts that fail age estimation checks ...

Despite the app's honourable intentions, the latest restrictions implemented by Spotify bosses has sparked mass backlash ...

Gamers are uniquely exploiting a loophole in the UK's new age verification system by using Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding ...