Press releases
Aug 31, 2025
Yoti excels in Australia’s age assurance benchmarking: A privacy-first approach with high accuracy
London, UK – 31st August 2025 – UK-based digital identity company, Yoti, has today been recognised as one of the leading providers in Australia’s national Age Assurance Technology Trial (AATT) benchmarking, demonstrating exceptional performance in privacy, usability and accuracy for both age verification and age estimation. The independent evaluation highlights Yoti’s commitment to balancing user privacy with robust assurance, confirming Yoti’s technology as one of the most privacy-forward solutions in the trial. Privacy by design and international standards compliance Yoti’s systems for age verification and age estimation demonstrated accuracy levels suitable for real-world application, meeting the highest Technology
Articles
Aug 28, 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 Digital ID app downloads, Yoti becoming an Orchestration Service Provider and NIST ranking our latest facial age estimation model in first place for 13-16 year olds. Insights into Digital ID use following the Online Safety Act From Friday 25th July, the UK’s Online Safety Act required many businesses across the porn, social media, livestreaming, dating and some gaming sectors to perform age checks.
Articles
Aug 06, 2025
Yoti is now a certified Orchestration Service Provider (OSP) under UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework
Yoti is now a certified Orchestration Service Provider (OSP) under the UK’s Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (DIATF), just weeks after the UK Data Act received Royal Assent. Following a rigorous audit to ensure compliance with the UK DIATF’s strict requirements for OSPs, we have been awarded this certification by the Kantara Initiative. This milestone builds on our commitment to deliver trusted, secure, and inclusive digital identity solutions for people and businesses across the UK. Simple and inclusive access to trusted digital IDs Digital IDs are no longer the future, they’re here. We’ve had over 6.5m downloads
Articles
Jul 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 focuses on the Online Safety Act, talking about facial age estimation accuracy rates, the increase in Digital ID usage and reaction to the new legislation coming into effect. Online Safety Act sparks Digital ID boom The UK’s Online Safety Act came into effect on Friday 25th July, delivering some bumper results for Yoti. We launched our “Porno Pete” video across TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook
Articles
Jul 28, 2025
Meet our anonymous facial age estimation technology
We developed our facial age estimation technology to provide a secure and private way to prove your age, without sharing identity documents or personal details like name or date of birth. It’s fast, accurate and anonymous. Here’s how our facial age estimation technology works, how it’s designed and why it’s one of the most privacy-friendly solutions available. What is facial age estimation? Facial age estimation is a safer and easier way to prove your age to access age-restricted goods, services and content. Completing a facial age estimation takes seconds – all you need to do is take a
White papers
Jul 21, 2025
Facial Age Estimation white paper
Making it faster and safer to prove your age Our age estimation technology accurately estimates a person’s age by looking at their face. We built it to give everyone a secure and private way of proving how old they are in different everyday scenarios: from age checking on social platforms and online stores, to supermarket self-checkouts, bars and clubs. This privacy-friendly approach to age verification doesn’t require any personal details or documents, and all information is instantly deleted once someone receives their estimated age – nothing is ever viewed by a human. Key takeaways