Australian eSafety Commissioner announces platforms covered by social media law
Comments made this week at a press conference held by Australia’s Minister for Communications and eSafety Commissioner aim to bring…
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.
Yoti confirms compliance for MyFace liveness tool with iBeta PAD retests
UK digital identity player Yoti has announced that its latest liveness detection tool, MyFace, has been re-tested by iBeta Quality…
New Zealand taps NEC to develop mobile proof of age credential
NEC has announced a partnership with Hospitality New Zealand that will see it digitize the Kiwi Access Card, a proof…
Ingenium and Southampton University launch biometric age assurance fellowship
England’s University of Southampton has posted a research opportunity in biometric “age verification,” partnering with Ingenium Biometric Laboratories to recruit…
Youverse introduces face biometrics APIs for easy age estimation, liveness detection
Youverse has launched two new biometric solutions aimed at enhancing digital onboarding, fraud prevention and regulatory compliance. The age estimation…
Australian eSafety Commissioner battling suits from Big Tech ahead of Dec 10
If the wave of age assurance legislation across the globe had a headlining showdown, it would probably be in Australia,…
Effectiveness of age gates for social media algorithms, chatbots next targets in UK
The algorithms that social media platforms use to determine what is presented to young UK users in their feeds will…
Italy’s regulator releases list of adult platforms covered by age verification law
Another domino in the global game of age verification for adult content sites is about to fall, this one in…
Google publishes guidance on Play Age Signals API as part of online safety package
Google has published a guide on how to use the beta version of its Play Age Signals API to retrieve…
AI chatbots face age assurance clampdown prompted by teen suicide, psychosis
What are nightmares made of? Halloween lore would say vampires and werewolves and witches and ghosts. But it turns out…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection