Reddit said that users "shouldn't need to share personal information to participate in meaningful discussions," but that it ...

Initially passed in 2023, the UK Online Safety Act requires all platforms that host certain restricted content to establish ...

Reddit will use the third-party service Persona to confirm a user’s age, necessitating users to submit a picture of their ...

In the wake of the UK’s mandatory age checks, VPN apps have shot to the top of app stores. Proton VPN, a privacy-first ...

Reddit has introduced age verification on its UK site to stop people aged under 18 from looking at "certain mature content".

The outcome so far is an assortment of online services handling sensitive user information — a “privacy nightmare,” says Cody ...

The platform may also soon start checking if users are human or AI.

“As free speech advocates have argued, and as the new age verification on certain Reddit communities now show, the result of this policy in practice is also to limit access to important information ...

The policy goes into effect May 15 and was written by Lauren Gelman, who is, as the Reddit post about the new policy, put it, “the founder of BlurryEdge Strategies, a legal and strategy ...

Reddit’s evolving verification needs Currently, Reddit verifies users via email, a method that’s proven inadequate in tackling fake accounts and AI-driven spam. With governments across the ...

Social media platform Reddit is reportedly considering using the iris-scanning orbs developed by World — a project by Tools for Humanity, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — for its user ...