PlayStation Update: Sony to Enforce Age Verification for Key Features

Sony is the latest company to announce that it will be requiring that users submit themselves to an age check to access certain features available on its PlayStation gaming platform. The move comes as countries across the globe are adopting, or at the very least debating, age verification laws that are ostensibly designed to protect young, impressionable internet users.

Sony is working with age verification service Yoti to determine if a user is eligible for an adult account, and there will be a few different options available to users. The check can be completed by completing a facial scan, uploading an identification document such as a driver’s license, or by using the information that a mobile provider has on file.

Failure to complete the age verification will result users being locked out from certain features, some of which include voice chat, text chat and messaging, joining parties, Discord voice ...