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A user asks you to delete everything you hold about their age check. Three companies touched that check: you, your verification vendor, and whoever produced the signal upstream. GDPR does not read your contract to work out who answers. It asks who decided

On 23 September 2026 Ofcom opened an investigation into Aylo over the Apple-based age checks Pornhub switched on in May. Ofcom said plainly that it will not rule on how Apple's system works. It will rule on whether Aylo did enough due diligence and testin

The Commission's KIDS Act proposal, unveiled on 16 September 2026, replaces the single age line with a staircase: no account under 13, a guardian-controlled account at 13 and 14, an independent account from 15, and a narrow parent-hosted route for younger

On 10 September 2026 a Texas judge granted summary judgment against TikTok under the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Not for failing to protect children, but for describing protections that did not behave the way the description said. Two weeks ear

On 9 September 2026 the last obligation in Australia's Age-Restricted Material Codes came into force, and four storefronts started checking whether a user is an adult before allowing an 18+ download. Apple reads account signals. Google returns a bracket o