On January 28, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted a workshop on age assurance, where FTC leadership signaled new guidance may be forthcoming to clarify potential conflicts between age assurance efforts and federal law. At the workshop, titled, “Protecting American Children: A Workshop to Explore Age Verification Technologies,” FTC leadership acknowledged a tension between implementing age assurance technologies, which may be required to comply with state laws, and complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). FTC leadership indicated they are exploring solutions to resolve this tension, while also balancing competing interests of privacy, online safety, free speech and user experience. The workshop panels, which included participants from industry, state governments, the UK data protection regulator’s office and other stakeholders, highlighted how companies with an online presence face varying regulatory, privacy and security concerns as they seek to deploy age assurance methods proportional to their business’ customer profile and age-related risks.