A Louisiana law that would have required social media platforms to verify the ages of their users has been blocked by a judge. The law, known as the Secure Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation, ...

A group of Georgia state senators are calling for further age verification legislation, greater parental control of minors’ ...

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The country is barring children under 16 from social media, with a sweeping federal law that is one of the first attempts at ...

Under 16s are getting ready for the impending prohibition by downloading new apps, getting VPNs, fake IDs and even exchanging ...

From December 10, certain social media platforms will have to take steps to prevent Australians under the age of 16 from having an account. For a number of social media platforms, account holders will ...

The “Verification Required” screen in Discord appears when the platform detects activity that differs from your usual behavior. This automated security measure is designed to protect both your account ...

Last week, hackers made off with roughly 70,000 scanned government IDs from a third-party provider used by Discord’s support and age-verification systems. Complete, with the usernames of the accounts ...

Discord Confirms 70K Govt IDs Exposed in Breach, Hackers Are Posting People's Age-Verification Selfies Online Discord also confirms that hackers accessed user data by breaching a third-party service ...

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The breach of thousands of Discord users’ data appears to be worse than initially reported, as details of the age verification data lost to hackers are reported. Zendesk is identified as Discord’s ...

Last week, it was reported that Discord had suffered a breach of security through a third-party customer support service it uses. Specifically, its age verification system was hit and a large number ...