OCR Labs gets age verification certification; euConsent pushes for ‘live operation’

Age verification just keeps getting hotter, at least from the government side. This year, the French government mandated that people wanting to view online pornography prove their age with digital certificates. And the United Kingdom's Online Safety Bill is expected to soon require much the same.

The private sector, of course, is active here, too. For example, a consortium of European businesses, nonprofits and universities have formed an organization to push a verification concept they have devised.

And in the …

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