Horizon Scan: Navigating The Age Assurance Regulatory Landscape

The regulatory landscape on AI, online safety, and social media is evolving rapidly in the US, EU, and beyond. To support companies in navigating these currents, we have launched our Horizon Scan blog series to cover significant legal developments on key topics including age assurance, frontier AI, chatbots, and child safety. In these blogs, we will assess regulatory trends and provide practical guidance to help your organization prepare for what’s coming over the horizon. 

In the three decades since Congress passed the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) in 1998, the child safety regulatory landscape has expanded significantly in the United States. As part of that expansion, federal agencies and state legislatures have promulgated new rules and laws requiring technology companies to verify the age of their users (known as “age assurance” laws). As a result of these new age assurance laws, many technology companies must now consider how to build age assurance