UK high court hears Wikipedia suit against Online Safety Act category rules
Web 2.0 is more than two decades old, but in many ways the world is just beginning to reckon with…
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 laws for social media heading to US Supreme Court
U.S. regulators are increasingly targeting social media. The recent Supreme Court opinion in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton validated age…
UK age verification is here: Ofcom set to begin enforcing Online Safety Act
The age assurance bell is tolling in the UK, where the Online Safety Act is set to take effect. The…
PlaySafe ID CEO: ‘Gamers don’t want their behaviour tracked or tied to passports’
Video games bring in significantly more revenue than the movie industry, with multiplayer online games especially lucrative. The likes of…
New mDL resource from STA explores real-world age verification use cases
The Identity and Access Forum (IAF) has published what it calls the industry’s first comprehensive guide to how standards-based mobile…
UK to tender facial age estimation for migrant assessments within weeks
Desperate people take desperate measures. This cliché applies to immigrants lying about their age to increase their chances of being…
Survey data backs up eSafety advice to deny YouTube age check exemption
There is much talk about how YouTube has become the new television. Yet while traditional broadcast TV had a built-in…
Yoti shows further facial age estimation accuracy gains ahead of OSA deadline
Yoti’s facial age estimation technology has hit a new level of accuracy in internal testing of the approved method for…
ITL looks to expand in-store facial age estimation use cases
Innovative Technology (ITL) is busy on the retail biometrics front, with new content looking at the Demographic Data Insights (DDI)…
Age estimation from Persona to unlock Roblox’s Trusted Connections feature
Roblox has implemented a new system, called Trusted Connections, that integrates facial age estimation (FAE) provided by Persona. “We’re investing…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection