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The Age Verification Providers Association
The Age Verification Providers Association is a not-for-profit global trade body representing almost 30 organizations who provide privacy-preserving, audited and certified age assurance solutions (both age verification and age estimation), proportionate to the risk of harm. The AVPA was formed in 2018 and is expanding rapidly as the age and identity provider industry grows. Age assurance has emerged to be a key driver of the wider market for digital identity.
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Yoti and Luciditi demo interoperable age assurance through PKI
A method of using public key infrastructure (PKI) to enable interoperability among age assurance providers and systems was shared at…
| Apr 11, 2024 | Parental consent in focus at day 3 of Global Age Assurance Standards SummitDay three of the Global Age Assurance Standards Summit hosted speakers presenting on how to use decentralized digital identity for… |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Age assurance standards progress towards consensus, away from ‘biometrics’Age assurance processes like facial age estimation do not require the isolation and processing of personal identifiers, unlike biometric identification…. |
| Apr 5, 2024 | AVPA calls UK government to legalize digital age assuranceAn age verification trade organization is urging the UK government to swiftly adopt regulations allowing stores to use age assurance… |
| Mar 11, 2024 | Texas’ online age verification law upheld on appealImposing age verification for access to pornography does not violate the First Amendment, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals… |
| Feb 28, 2024 | Age checks are here and increasing fast; the race to strike privacy balance is onAny system for the online age checks that are being introduced for access to pornography and other online content will… |
| Feb 14, 2024 | The UK’s Online Safety Act is live; now for the hard partThe UK’s pioneering regulatory effort on internet safety has provided direction and arrived at a significant consensus on desired outcomes,… |
| Feb 12, 2024 | AVPA flags AI, distrust in government and big tech as hurdles for age verificationOn February 27 at 10am EST, Biometric Update will host a webinar entitled Age Verification: Lessons Learned from the UK,… |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Privately, ACCS, Idiap and AVPA join forces to protect age estimation from generative AIGenerative AI services are emerging that can potentially be used to thwart online facial age estimation systems, just as those… |
| Dec 7, 2023 | Panel explores how to do age assurance and in the face of ‘legislative tsunami’Age assurance technologies have become an issue of global concern, with consequent regulatory disorder. In “Getting Age Assurance Right,” a… |
| Aug 9, 2023 | Yoti and AVPA call for bias measurement in NIST age estimation assessmentsThe planned assessment of age estimation algorithms by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology should note the distribution… |
| May 19, 2023 | Optimism abounds about the future of online child safety at Westminster policy eventA group of experts gathered together at a Westminster eForum policy conference to discuss the “Next steps for online safety… |
| Apr 11, 2023 | Age assurance tech providers wrestle with growing demand, privacy concernsAge assurance is one of the hottest topics in digital identity at the moment, but does not necessarily need to… |
| Mar 22, 2023 | AVPA responds to EFF report on age verificationAs more U.S. states consider laws to require proof of age before accessing websites with a certain level of content… |
| Feb 17, 2023 | Age verification for porn access supported across UK electorate, finds pollA survey for right-leaning TV news channel GB News finds that 78 percent of the British public support age verification… |
| Jan 11, 2023 | Success of age estimation, digital ID trials in UK lead to pressure for changes to the lawThe influential British Retail Consortium (BRC) is calling for a change to the law to allow the use of age… |
| Jan 2, 2023 | UK age verification pilots boost case for check-out facial estimation systemsThe use of biometrics and other technologies for age verification to control alcohol sales in the UK showed age estimation… |
| Sep 5, 2022 | UK age verification sector urges ICO not to follow European porn regulationThe Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) has warned the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK data protection regulator, not to follow… |
| May 31, 2022 | UK age verification: digital ID initiatives announced and updatedThe private sector is continuing to experiment with age verification, in some cases proven through biometrics and digital ID. Yoti’s… |
| May 12, 2022 | Age verification and digital wallets for minors: EU launches strategy for online child safetyThe European Union has devised a new strategy to help protect its children online as more protective technologies become available… |
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Watch: Age verification in India – Technology, Policy, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act
Join Biometric Update managing editor Chris Burt and analyst Joel R. McConvey in conversation with Shreya Suri, Partner at CMS…
| Feb 28, 2024 | Age verification: Lessons learned from the UK |
