Social Media Ideas for Age Rating

What Age Ratings on App Stores Actually Tell You and What They Don’t

App store age ratings tell us the minimum maturity level of an app’s declared content. They can warn about violence, sexual material, profanity, gambling and other potentially sens...

WhatsApp’s Age Check and the DPDP Act : What Section 9 Means for Children’s Data Compliance

Introduction WhatsApp has started asking some users in India to confirm they are over eighteen before they can keep using the app. On its face, it looks like nothing more than anot...

5 best age verification widgets for your website in {! YEAR !}

Jotform Elfsight Common Ninja Embeddable POWR If your business sells regulated products or hosts restricted content, age restriction is the cornerstone for protect...

Age measures not stopping underage social media access

There has been no reduction in underage children's access to social media platforms, despite legal obligations which came into effect in July 2025 designed to prevent this, accordi...

Age Data for App Developers Primed to Trigger Cascading Effects

The children's privacy risk model is changing in the United States. Historically, many businesses could credibly say they did not know whether children or teens were using their ap...

Epic Games Store to require age verification for R18+ games in Australia

Epic Games has revealed that its Epic Games Store will require players in Australia to verify they are 18 or older before they can download or purchase games rated R18+ from Septem...

Windows 11 will soon tell apps how old you are. Here’s how it works

Microsoft is building automated age verification directly into Windows 11 in the form of system-level APIs that will share your verified age with registered apps. To be clear, t...

EU-Mindestalter für Social Media: 13 Jahre? Alibi-Regel statt echter Jugendschutz – ein Kommentar

Brüssel will ein einheitliches Mindestalter für die Nutzung sozialer Netzwerke schaffen, könnte mit dem Vorschlag von 13 Jahren aber genau das Gegenteil erreichen. Denn viele Staat...

Microsoft introduces mandatory age verification for 18+ games on Xbox in Australia

Xbox users in Australia will need to verify their age before accessing games rated 18+

Social Media: EU-Experten empfehlen für Social Media ein Mindestalter von 13 Jahren

Australien hat es vorgemacht, nun will die EU nachziehen. Schon nach der Sommerpause könnte sie erste Schritte einleiten. Eine Kommission gibt nun einen Ausblick, für wen die Regel...

Tánaiste says 16 is the golden age for allowing teens on social media, as EU ban proposals likely to fall short

An outright ban on social media use for under-16s at an EU level was not recommended by an expert report handed to the EU Commission

How Old You Have to Be to Tattoo, State by State

Tattoo license requirements by state: see which states require artists to be 18+, which list proof of age, and where minor rules protect clients. The post How Old You Have to Be to...

More Data on Online Age Authentication Balk Rates

In a prior post, I surveyed the rates at which consumers do not complete online age authentication processes, what I call the “balk” rate. There is no single canonical balk rate. I...

Some Battle.net players may need to verify their age to avoid losing access to voice chat and other social features

To comply with UK law, some battle.net users will soon have to verify their age to avoid losing access to social interactions and more.

EU plans to ban under-13s from social media, with ‘phased access’ afterwards

The European Union is proposing to ban under 13 year olds from using social media apps, with a plan for “phased and gradual access” for teenagers. While most social media apps clai...

Microsoft adds age-awareness APIs that can tell if users are children, teens, or adults

Microsoft is adding new age-awareness APIs to Windows 11 that will allow apps to determine whether someone is a child, teenager, or adult without exposing their exact date of birth...

Texas Doctors Push State to Adopt 21 as Youngest Age for Prediction Market Use

Warning that the adolescent brain is primed to take risk and citing data that a rising number of underage males are betting, Texas physicians are urging the state to make 21 the mi...

Uber is working on letting 10-year-olds ride alone

Code in the latest Uber iOS app refers to adding a tween aged 10 to 12 to an Uber Family profile, with a trusted adult contact and the option to require a grown-up at pickup. Uber...

Social-Media-Altersgrenze: EU-Experten wollen Nutzung ab 13 Jahren erlauben

Die Pläne für europaweit strengere Altersregeln nehmen Gestalt an. Experten haben ihre Empfehlungen vorgelegt, Ursula von der Leyen dringt auf einen baldigen Gesetzesvorschlag nach...

Kalshi's Youngest Traders Moved $5.4 Billion. Some Rivals Won't Take Their Money

The age that lets someone bet on football through a prediction market is three years younger than the age that lets them do it at a sportsbook. Users between 18 and 20 years old tr...

Ireland probes X over age assurance, parental control

Platforms that permit adult content must employ effective age assurance methods, according to Ireland's Online Safety Code. Read more: Ireland probes X over age assurance, parental...

Average Age of CS2 Players: Who Plays Counter-Strike 2?

Counter-Strike's player base spans multiple age groups, primarily ranging from late teens to early thirties, with a significant number of older fans as well. Although there is no v...

Google Play’s got a new system for letting apps deliver age-appropriate experiences

Google Play is getting a privacy-preserving way to let apps know how old users are.

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