Xbox will now require age verification under the UK's Online Safety Act Microsoft says "starting early next year", certain Xbox social features will be limited to friends only in the UK unless age ...

Citing concerns around player safety, Xbox now expects to expand its age verification compliance obligations with the UK government to other regions in the future. A UK law, known as the Online Safety ...

A widely shared Facebook post that criticises Britain's Online Safety Act and suggests the law makes it harder to use a Microsoft Xbox than enter the country is misleading. The law, which requires ...

The United Kingdom's Online Safety Act recently went into force, and changes are already being felt across digital platforms. Microsoft has announced that it will also be implementing new systems on ...

Earlier this month, the United Kingdom rolled out the Online Safety Act, which is meant to force any platform or website that could feasibly host adult content to include some sort of age verification ...

UK age verification is now live on Xbox, and players report being removed mid-game, locked out of chat, and unable to access Discord or privacy settings.

The UK's age verification law has been an abject failure thus far, and a recent high-profile Discord hack is all the evidence you need that it's dumb. But, it *is* the law. So how will Xbox follow it?