The issue for the UK — and other countries seeking, belatedly, to shield minors from online harms — is making age verification work. The most foolproof methods tend to involve uploading documents or ...

The United Kingdom can always be relied upon to supply us with the eccentric, the admirably dotty, and the odd extreme bit of ...

To do so, Spotify partnered with the digital identity company, Yoti. Users are now required to do one of two verification ...

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

The UK government has warned that online platforms which "deliberately target UK children and promote [Virtual Private ...

作为 Online Safety Act 法律的一部分，英国用户访问成人内容需要验证年龄，这一要求导致英国的 VPN 搜索量和注册量激增。ProtonVPN 称，年龄验证要求生效后英国注册量增长了 1400% 以上。这种激增不是短时间内的现象。VPN ...

Following the advent of the UK Online Safety Act, many VPN users have grown concerned that the government may seek to ban VPN ...

Since the latest part of the Online Safety Act has come into force, it's come in for an increasing amount of criticism –here ...

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

The new rules, seen by watchdogs as a way to protect children online, have sparked a furious backlash from thousands of users ...

GTA Online to implement age verification, starting with UK players. Impacts in-game features like chat and Snapmatic, driven ...

EXCLUSIVE: James Baker said that, important as it was to protect young people from online harm, it was just as crucial to ...