Device-level child safety controls to be legislated in UK as deadline expires
The UK government will introduce primary legislation requiring major tech platforms to build device level protections for children that will…
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.
Microsoft launches Age API, following OS-level declared age range model
Whether because of its age, its product focus or its relatively anemic branding, Microsoft has not caught much public scrutiny…
IEEE developing parental consent standard for online age assurance
Talking about age assurance means talking about parental consent. Many continue to maintain that parents are the best arbiters of…
EU age assurance debate intensifies as Macron seeks bloc-wide social media law
French president Emmanuel Macron is calling on European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to support an EU-wide regulation putting…
Listen: How age assurance platforms earn trust
The world has more or less decided that some online services should be age-restricted. The question now is, how to…
Age verification brings the privacy debate to vaping
By Thomas Chen, Chief Technology Officer of IKE Tech The most consequential age-verification deployment happening right now is not on…
Indonesia considers linking social media accounts to national ID cards
As countries across Asia develop age assurance policies and schemes, the region is serving to illustrate the many possible branches…
‘Policy intention is becoming much clearer’ on digital ID for UK alcohol sales
Is this it? Could it actually be happening? Is the UK government actually now preparing to sign the amendment to…
Au10tix, Neo bring biometric identity verification to Australian gaming kiosks
Au10tix has integrated its identity verification platform into self-service kiosks from Australian automation provider Neo, bringing biometric matching, liveness detection,…
Brazil becomes biggest regulatory test yet of online safety enforcement
Online safety laws continue to take shape across the globe, and Brazil has emerged as Latin America’s leading test bed…
