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Apr 23, 2025
Strengthening existing age verification methods to meet modern challenges
In today’s digital landscape, effective age verification is key to helping us build a safer, more trusted online world. Whether it’s ensuring young people have age-appropriate experiences or preventing underage sales of age-restricted items, accurate age checks are crucial for safeguarding online users. We’re seeing a wave of age-related legislation come in around the world. With this, online services face the significant challenge of balancing user privacy with user safety. Alongside newer age-checking solutions, existing age verification methods still have their benefits. We look at how these methods can be strengthened for greater security, efficiency and user privacy.
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Apr 09, 2025
Age estimations in our Digital ID app
Digital ID users can have their age estimated in the app, and then anonymously share the age result. This gives them a secure, private and easy way to pass age checks. – With lots of legislation being introduced to improve online safety, including the UK Online Safety Act and the EU Digital Services Act, more businesses are looking at how to verify the age of users. People should have a choice in how they prove their age, so they can choose the method that works best for them. They might use their identity document, complete a facial age estimation
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Apr 02, 2025
France’s new age verification law: what it means for adult platforms and how to comply
Every month, 2.3 million minors in France access adult content online. In response, the French regulator Arcom has introduced strict new rules to ensure that only adults can access platforms with pornographic content. These measures, which come into full force on 11th April, aim to protect children while protecting the privacy of adults. In this blog, we answer some of the common questions about the new law and explore how our solutions can help platforms to comply. What are the new rules from Arcom? In October 2024, Arcom, (Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority), announced new rules for
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Mar 27, 2025
Thoughts from our CEO
In this blog series, our CEO Robin Tombs will be sharing his experience, whilst focusing on major themes, news and issues in the world of identity verification and age assurance. This month, Robin chats about the UK’s new identity verification requirements for online knife sales and parental vouching for age assurance. Stricter identity checks for online knife sales The UK Government has published the National Police Chief Council’s (NPCC) review of online knife sales. There is much to digest over 81 pages, but one clear recommendation, repeated often in the ‘Clayman Report’, is that the online buyer should
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Feb 25, 2025
Thoughts from our CEO
In this blog series, our CEO Robin Tombs will be sharing his experience, whilst focusing on major themes, news and issues in the world of identity verification and age assurance. This month, Robin talks about the future of digital IDs in the UK, his hopes for our Digital ID network and thresholds for facial age estimation. Visions for digital IDs in the UK Tony Blair recently stated in The Times that high adoption of reusable digital ID in the UK is inevitable. But that’s only half of the digital ID story. He says, “Digital ID is a personal
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Jan 30, 2025
Thoughts from our CEO
In this blog series, our CEO Robin Tombs will be sharing his experience, whilst focusing on major themes, news and issues in the world of identity verification and age assurance. This month, Robin talks about the UK’s plan to introduce government-issued digital IDs, his predictions for the UK’s digital ID market, tackling the problem of deepfake porn and online age verification for knife sales. Initial thoughts about the UK’s rollout of government-issued digital IDs Game-changing news from the UK Government clearly shows that it’s very serious about a digital Britain and reusable digital ID. The positive ramifications for