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….
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.
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…
Smart Engines delivers OCR for biometric age checks, Novomatic adds ID reader to casino system
UK-based age verification platform VerifyMyAge has chosen Smart Engines’ document capture system with computer vision to confirm the age of…
An old carny trick goes high tech — AI guesses ages better than we can
A facial recognition algorithm written by German researchers is pretty good at guessing both the age and ethnicity of faces…
Selfie biometrics could strengthen age verification but businesses fear for profit
More than half of adult-oriented sites in age-restricted industries in the UK suspect minors have used or purchased their products…
Yoti AI age estimation used in BBC investigation of underage porn on social media
Yoti’s anonymous age estimation technology dubbed Yoti Age Scan has helped the BBC investigate a social media trend where people…
Michigan says liquor retailers can use biometrics to card customers
The state of Michigan has updated its liquor laws to allow retailers to use biometrics to confirm a customer’s age….
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Understanding MOSIP
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection