In 2025, the European Commission took the first steps towards creating an EU-wide strategy for age verification on websites ...

GTA 5, and by extension GTA Online, has an age rating in the UK of 18, but currently has no age-based restrictions to ...

Opposition to the UK's Online Safety Act is growing as age verification rules come into force, but the government isn't ...

In the U.S., things are more fragmented. Without federal law in place, any regulations that do happen will likely be on a state-by-state basis. Right now, there’s no national requirement for age ...

An honourable attempt to protect children online has backfired after the Online Safety Act put up barriers to adults wanting ...

Grand Theft Auto Online will soon be subject to the UK's new age verification laws, and Rockstar has prepared a special ...

In the wake of the UK’s mandatory age checks, VPN apps have shot to the top of app stores. Proton VPN, a privacy-first ...

It’s too early to know how this law will settle into full implementation, but its implications are clear: For determined kids ...

On July 25, 2025, the Online Safety Act (OSA) went into effect in the UK, requiring sites hosting adult content and social ...

Here’s everything you need to know about the Online Safety Act. Gone are the days when you could merely click “I am over 18” to prove your age, because sites like Pornhub will now require age ...

The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, declined to offer an attributed on-the-record comment about the new age checks to ...

The UK's Online Safety Act comes into force today, marking a shift in internet culture that is being felt around the world.