This list includes a selection of the latest research on age verification & online safety posted to SSRN in 2025.
- Tinder Backgrounds by Irina D. Manta (Hofstra University)
- The “Segregate-and-Suppress” Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online by Eric Goldman (Santa Clara University)
- Towards Harmonised Online Age Verification? A Comparative Study of French and EU Legal Frameworks by Alexandre Humain-Lescop (Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
- Digital Policy as Problem Space: Policy Formation, Public Opinion, and Australia’s Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 by Terry Flew (The University of Sydney), Timothy Koskie (The University of Sydney), & Agata Stepnik (The University of Sydney)
- High Risks: The Law and Policy of Cannabis Advertising on Social Media by Hannah R. Weiser (Bentley University) & Jackson Harris (Bentley University)
- Age Verification Laws and Population Mental Health by Xiaohui (Ronnie) Guo (Capital University of Economics and Business) & Lizhong Peng (University of West Georgia)
- Rethinking Youth Privacy by Danielle Keats Citron (University of Virginia) & Ari Ezra Waldman (University of California, Irvine)
- “They’re Scamming Me”: How Children Experience and Conceptualize Harm in Game Monetization by Taylor Hardwick (The University of Sydney), Marcus Carter (The University of Sydney), Stephanie Harkin (RMIT), Tianyi ZhangShao (The University of Sydney), & Ben Egliston (The University of Sydney)
- Nerd Harder: A Typology of Techno-Legal Solutionist Logics in Child Online Safety Laws by Amanda Reid (University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill), Lorcan Neill (University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill), & Evan Ringel (Appalachian State University)
- A Social Reckoning? Litigation, Legislation, and the Future of Social Media by Randolph Robinson II (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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