Part Two of ACT’s Two-Part Resource: The ABCs and 1-2-3s of Age Verification and Compliance Lawmakers across the United States are introducing a wave of age-verification and parental-consent laws aimed at protecting kids online. While well-intentioned, these state-by-state approaches create a confusing and costly patchwork for startups and independent [...]
Lawmakers across the United States are introducing a wave of age-verification and parental-consent laws aimed at protecting kids online. While well-intentioned, these state-by-state approaches create a confusing and costly patchwork for startups and independent developers. And as we have seen in other efforts to use age-verification methods, the very people [...]
Decisions made in Brussels, London, and other capitals around the globe increasingly shape whether startups can raise funds, access markets, and scale worldwide. When the rules of the road aren’t clear or keep shifting, they affect product timelines, increase costs, and make investors turn away. That’s true for early-stage [...]
Right now, policymakers around the world are setting their 2026 agendas on the same core questions: how to protect consumers online, how to govern AI responsibly without stifling innovation, how to strengthen privacy and security, and how to drive economic growth. From Brussels to London to Washington, across the [...]
EU ACTivists for Change: Members join forces to make the Single Market work for startups Across Europe, startups, scaleups, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are building world-class products, but their growth path is still more complicated than it should be. EU startups face 27 different systems for incorporation, [...]