All articles tagged with "Age Verification"
France has passed legislation requiring all social media users, not just minors, to verify their identity through regula…
Facebook's new free verification system uses selfie checks to place white checkmarks on Dating, Marketplace and Groups p…
Ofcom's first Online Safety Act review explicitly rejects age inference systems as inadequate for child protection, forc…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced plans on 13 July for an EU-wide age verification app and po…
ODDA has granted associate partner status to Veriff, an Estonian identity verification provider processing over 12,500 d…
Korean dating app APTING requires users to verify apartment ownership or residency before creating a profile, using elec…
UK ban on social media for under-16s covers livestreaming, gaming platforms with social features, and any service enabli…
Texas's App Store Accountability Act requires all under-18s to link app store accounts to parental profiles for download…
Guardian Flame launched this month in New Zealand with mandatory government ID verification and risk-scoring based on pr…
Tinder and Diesel have partnered on a 17-piece Pride 2026 capsule collection, donating $100,000 each to LGBTQIA+ employm…
70% of Coffee Meets Bagel active users completed AI-powered video selfie verification within the first month of rollout …
Dating platforms must submit illegal content and children's risk assessments to Ofcom between April and July 2026 Catego…
Meta now deploys AI to analyse height, bone structure, and physical markers in photos to identify users under 13 on Face…
Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, an eightfold increase from previous years according to the Fe…
Kochi Prefecture is offering residents aged 20 to 39 up to 20,000 yen (£93) annually to use state-approved matchmaking p…
California's SB 598 would require dating platforms to conduct criminal background checks on all users and flag profiles …
Tinder will integrate Sam Altman's World iris-scanning verification system to combat AI-enabled fraud projected to reach…
India's Joint Committee on the Data Protection Bill has recommended mandatory KYC identity verification for all users of…
Gleeden has 4 million Indian members despite serving extramarital connections in a culturally conservative market India'…
From 4 April, Tinder will require all Dutch users to submit to mandatory facial biometric scanning or face permanent acc…
EU child safety derogation expired 3 April, removing legal basis for platforms to scan for CSAM despite privacy rules Go…
Australia's eSafety Commissioner issued formal warnings to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube three mont…
Tinder has made video selfie facial verification compulsory for all new UK users, marking the dating industry's most agg…
A New Mexico jury awarded $375 million in civil penalties against Meta after a six-day deliberation Undercover accounts …
From 7 April 2025, every UK dating platform must detect and report child sexual exploitation and abuse material to the N…
At least ten countries have enacted or are actively reviewing social media bans for under-16s, following Australia's Dec…
Meta filed three lawsuits against Brazil-based scam operations and one against a Vietnam group, plus issued cease-and-de…
Discord classified 90% of users as adults using behavioural signals alone—account tenure, payment history, and participa…
X filed a €120M appeal against the European Commission's DSA fine for converting blue checkmarks from identity verificat…
Snapchat has shut down or restricted 415,000 Australian teen accounts since the under-16 social media ban took effect Sn…
MyTruDate requires all users to pass ID verification and criminal background checks covering 200+ offence categories bef…
Portugal's parliament voted 148-69 to require parental consent for 13- to 16-year-olds accessing social media, enforced …
Meta blocked 544,000 Australian youth accounts and Snapchat blocked 415,000 since the under-16 social media ban took eff…
Snap Inc. rolled out expanded Family Center features on 22 January, providing parents with detailed breakdowns of teen a…
Meta removed 550,000 Australian accounts in the first week of enforcing the country's under-16 social media ban—330,639 …
LinkedIn has surpassed 100 million verified users and is now offering a Verification API for third-party platforms Verif…
Grindr testified in support of the Republican-sponsored App Store Accountability Act, which would require Apple and Goog…
UK romance fraud losses totalled £92.7M in the year to March 2024, with 8,141 reported cases according to Action Fraud R…
Snapchat will lock Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s from 10 December, the first major platform to act…
Gaydar eliminated six-figure annual technology costs by migrating to HubPeople's white-label infrastructure The platform…
Australia's mandatory Online Dating Code commenced 1 April, making it the first jurisdiction globally to enforce regulat…
UK dating apps must implement age verification via selfie videos or government ID from 25 July 2025 under Ofcom's Online…
Nearly one in four American teenagers aged 16-17 used dating apps over a six-month period, three to four times higher th…
Coffee Meets Bagel now mandates Singpass verification in Singapore, making it the first dating platform to require gover…
Grindr has begun requiring all UK users to verify age through facial biometrics or government ID ahead of the UK Online …
Fewer than 1,000 users have signed up for Browser Dating since launch, an art project that matches people based on their…
BeeDee has acquired UK-based Meet Kinksters, marking Meet Kinksters' exit just three years after its 2022 launch The com…
Child sex offenders are significantly more likely to use dating apps than non-offenders, according to research published…
Bumble reported a 3.8% revenue decline to $212.4M in Q4, with total company revenue falling to $273.6M New safety featur…
Bookmark reports 25% of its paying subscribers in India are women, potentially ahead of mainstream competitors in a mark…
LELO claims 82.5% of dating app users widened age filters in past year, with younger men and older women driving the tre…
Grindr is deploying AI-powered image verification to detect manipulated or fake profile photos The company is simultaneo…
Global Dating Insights' annual Christmas networking event at Houses of Parliament takes place 5 December, with final tic…
Romance scams targeting over-50s cost UK victims more than £92M annually, according to Action Fraud figures Manual video…
HubPeople has partnered with The Payments Group to enable cash payments for dating app subscriptions across 550,000 reta…
Victoria Milan faces class action lawsuit in Illinois for alleged BIPA violations related to facial verification system …
Match Group spent $227M on marketing in Q4 2024, up 8% year-over-year, whilst Bumble spent $106M in the same quarter Fee…
Bumble's share price has collapsed roughly 80% from its IPO peak, with paying members declining year-on-year Elizabeth M…
