The State of Play in Age Assurance in the United States – Key Takeaways

Legislation requiring the use of age assurance or age verification measures to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate or otherwise harmful content is gaining traction in the United States, especially at the state level.

To coincide with the publication of our paper on ‘Age Assurance & Age Verification Laws in the United States, CIPL hosted an in-person, invitation-only roundtable in San Francisco on September 25, 2024. The roundtable brought together representatives from government, industry, academia, and civil society to get a better understanding of the age assurance methods currently available and to address the challenges raised by recent legislative and regulatory activity.

To encourage open discussion, the roundtable was conducted under the Chatham House Rule. CIPL is pleased to share the following takeaways.

Attendees identified the following as priorities:

• Educate stakeholders about what age assurance measures can and cannot do
• Focus on context-specific use cases to clarify the harms to be mitigated
• Factor in perspectives from parents and child development experts
• Educate children about online harms
• Promote industry standards and certifications to level the playing field
• Develop multi-stakeholder, multi-layered solutions
• Act now

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