Age verification and the best privacy-preserving approach are top of mind for social and streaming platforms, Axios reports. The push focuses on increasing children's online safety while attempting to get ahead of existing and proposed regulatory frameworks requiring age verification processes. The U.K. Age Appropriate Design Code and the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act are current frameworks companies are working through. However, no law defines or outlines expectations for age verification processes, leaving individual companies to devise varying practices.
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