In the offline world, we have two main approaches to age verification. But one provision, part three of the act, was an attempt to do something that had never been done before, and introduce a requirement for online age verification. “It’s staggering that pornography sites do not yet have age verification,” she says. It’s huge.”Facial analysis: the Yoti app uses facial analysis rather than facial recognition to verify the age of its users, thereby sidestepping concerns over companies using data to create an ID database. “It’s facial analysis, not facial recognition,” Abbott’s colleague Julie Dawson, director of regulatory and policy, adds.

Source: The Guardian July 11, 2021 06:00 UTC