UK web users to undergo age verification to access porn
The UK has made bold updates to its draft Online Safety Bill which bring in new offences with matching strict…
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.
Innovative Technology’s age verification to be piloted by UK government for alcohol sales
Innovative Technology (ITL) has been selected by the UK government’s Home Office ministry to participate in a pilot program that…
Yoti sums up UK Online Safety Bill advice
Yoti has summed up and published a list of recommendations from MPs regarding the Online Safety Bill, released by the…
Yoti age estimation, digital ID app positioned for UK regulatory updates
A pair of regulatory developments in the UK open up opportunities for technology providers, notably Yoti, just as the company’s…
Australian government steps up digital ID efforts with new funding, age verification trials
Australia’s federal government has already begun trials of age verification for the purchase of alcohol by using digital identity, while…
Campaigners threaten UK ICO with legal action over lack of age verification for porn
A group of children’s charities has written to the Information Commissioner’s Office to threaten a high court challenge if it…
Trulioo approved for age verification in Germany as CEO talks digital ID ambitions
Trulioo has been approved to provide age verification services with its automated identity verification solution in Germany, as the company attempts…
Do not keep biometric data from age verification checks, UK tech firms warned
The debate over age verification techniques for accessing online content has intensified as the developer of the first statutory online…
Backlash mounts over UK govt failure to implement age verification for online porn
The delay by No. 10 Downing St. to implement Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017, which provides for…
Yoti Facial Age Estimation receives regulator approval in Germany for online services
Age estimation software from Yoti has been approved by Germany’s Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM) for…
