Age verification for social media, chatbots go viral with regulators globally
Age assurance has achieved memetic repeatability. Australia’s efforts to keep kids under 16 off big social media platforms are being…
Age Assurance
Biometric age assurance is any method of confirming a claim about the age of an individual by measuring their physical characteristics or actions. It includes age verification, which compares face biometrics from a reference image on an identity document to a facial photo or selfie, and age estimation, which analyzes the facial features in a photo to estimate a person’s age, typically within a given range. It also includes other methods that utilize voice or gesture.
Age assurance standards move into focus ahead of 2026 global summit
Tony Allen has a million things on his mind. At the moment, most of them concern the 2026 Global Age…
FTC makes COPPA exception for data collected for age verification process
Having hosted a number of events exploring the mechanics, ethics and applications of online age assurance technology, the U.S. Federal…
Europe formalizes concerns about GenAI-enabled nonconsensual deepfakes
Europe is increasingly concerned about nonconsensual deepfakes. Spain is calling for an investigation into Meta, X and TikTok for allegedly…
Australia launches major evaluation of social media minimum age law
How is Australia’s experiment in setting a minimum age for social media use going? It’s a question many in the…
Apple updates Declared Age Range API for national, state-level age assurance laws
Apple has released a beta update to its Declared Age Range API, which it has pitched as an alternative to…
Discord apologizes for Persona snafu, delays global age verification rollout
In a new blog post, Discord CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy says he’s bummed out how people interpreted language on its website…
ICO hits Reddit with £14.5M fine for not implementing robust age assurance
UK regulator Ofcom has taken plenty of heat for the perception that it’s not coming down hard enough in enforcing…
1M age verifications for Russian digital ID app Max
Russians have verified their age more than 1 million times using the state-backed “super app” Max, which includes a digital…
Persona pushes back against fears its age assurance tech isn’t secure
The increased prevalence of age checks to access certain online services has brought increased scrutiny to the age assurance sector,…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection