The 2026 Big Tech enforcement record in one place: four penalties worth about $14.1B, led by US states rather than Brussels, and dominated by children's safety. Here is what the Tech Fines tracker shows and how to follow it.
Picking an age verification vendor is the last decision, not the first. The duty you are actually under, the methods ladder, the one-bit record, and where the age claim lives in your identity model.
Meta's settlement with 51 attorneys general commits at least $12.1 billion, but the money is the survivable part. Every teen safety term in the deal depends on knowing who is under 18, and nobody has solved that yet.