Australia’s Online Safety Act could bring in biometric age checks for online pornography
Australia’s proposed Online Safety Act, which would give the country’s eSafety Commissioner more power, could result in biometric age checks…
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.
British Esports partners with IBM, Yoti on biometric age verification
The British Esports Association has announced new details regarding its updated membership platform, including its plans to restrict underage participation…
Yoti pitches biometric age estimation to regulate social media access for 7 to 11-year-olds
The biometrics-based age verification technology developed by Yoti is now likely accurate enough at determining the age of people between seven…
Yoti partners with MindGeek for biometric checks to stop online exploitation
One of the largest operators of pornographic websites in the world, MindGeek, has chosen Yoti to provide biometric identity verification and…
Yoti’s AI-powered age estimation software earns independent certification
The age estimation solution by Yoti has obtained independent certification from the United Kingdom’s Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) as…
Yoti reports progress in age verification without ID document
Yoti has announced a breakthrough in its anonymous age verification, which enables age checks without referring to an identity document….
Biometric age verification proposed for restricted purchases in New York State for third time
A New York State lawmaker has introduced a bill to allow biometrics to be used to verify the age of…
Manchester pubs use FinGO vein biometrics for age verification, contact tracing
The hospitality industry in the UK has introduced a biometric vein mapping system to verify age. Biometric identity authentication system…
Yoti publishes demographic data for Age Scan accuracy and touts biometric phishing protection partnership
Yoti Age Scan has an average mean absolute error (MAE) rate of below one and a half for sixteen and seventeen…
France is the latest to wade into age-verification quicksand
Age verification schemes are proving as controversial and difficult to implement as any other corner of biometrics. No one knows…
