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Dec 12, 2024
Yoti announces participation in the Australian Age Assurance Trial
On 28th November 2024, the Australian Government passed the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024. This legislation will prevent anyone aged under 16 from accessing social media platforms. It aims to protect young users from harmful content and interactions. Set to begin in early 2025, the Age Assurance Technology Trial will test the effectiveness of age assurance technologies – spanning verification, estimation and inference. By testing various methods, the Australian Government hopes to identify robust and scalable solutions to enforce minimum age limits across platforms. Initial insights were made available from June 2025 with a final
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Dec 05, 2024
Meet the Guardians: Dorothy Gordon
At Yoti, our Guardian Council is an independent board of advisors, helping us to navigate the complex world of identity. We spoke with our newest Guardian, Dorothy Gordon, to find out what drew her to our Guardian Council. 1) Why did you decide to join Yoti’s Guardian Council? I found the concept of a Guardian Council really engaging. It’s not often that companies attempt such a thing – inviting people from outside the company to help ensure they’re acting in a trustworthy and transparent way. There are many social enterprises out there that say that they’re doing something
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Nov 27, 2024
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 why Yoti facial age estimation is not easy to spoof, the UK Government’s Draft Statement of Strategic Priorities for online safety, the rise of AI voice cloning and the importance of supplementary codes for digital identity. Facial age estimation is not easy to spoof There was understandable scepticism from Rachel Burden and some listeners on BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast this month about
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Oct 25, 2024
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 gives a summary of the upcoming legislation for online porn in France, responds to Ofcom’s claims that facial age estimation is not effective for under 13s, and looks at the upcoming Digital Information and Smart Data Bill. French regulator introduces age checks for online adult content Big news this month that Arcom, the French regulator responsible for online porn, has announced the date that platforms
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Sep 27, 2024
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 popularity of digital right to work checks, the new Teen Accounts on Instagram, why facial age estimation is effective for children, intimate image abuse and responds to another misleading Crikey article. 34% of people choose Digital ID to prove their identity for DBS checks Since June 2022, Yoti has completed over 1.6 million right to work (RTW) checks and over 0.93 million
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Sep 18, 2024
Helping Instagram to create safer online experiences with new Teen Accounts
From today, Meta is introducing new ‘Teen Accounts’ on Instagram for users under the age of 18. This change aims to help parents keep their teens safe online, by including features that have built-in protections. These include the ability to set daily usage limits, restrict access during certain hours and monitor their child’s interactions, such as the accounts they are messaging and the types of content they’re engaging with on the platform. New users under the age of 18 are, by default, given the strictest privacy settings. Under the new guidelines, teens aged between 16 and 18 will be