Age assurance
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Jan 19, 2022
The UK's Online Safety Bill: moving towards a safer internet
The Online Safety Bill is the UK Government’s chance to make the internet safer for all. It is also a major step forward in the battle against online harms and goes hand in hand with our commitment to protect young people and the vulnerable online. While it’s the responsibility of everyone to make the internet a safer place, regulation is necessary to make businesses act responsibly. The Online Safety Bill’s key recommendations Since a first draft was issued in May, MPs and peers have made four recommendations, as well as many others, to strengthen the Bill: What’s illegal offline
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Jan 12, 2022
Age assurance: helping young people thrive online
“Age assurance is simply a gateway to the bigger prize of building the digital world young people deserve.” – 5Rights Foundation, But How Do They Know It’s a Child? Recent advancements in regulation and technology have transformed the ways we now check how old someone is online. Until recently, designing age appropriate services for young people from the ground up didn’t seem possible, with businesses accepting that young people would simply have to face being exposed to online harm. But, thanks to intelligent age assurance technology, we now have valuable and powerful tools that can help platforms start
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Jan 06, 2022
Learning more about our facial age estimation
This blog is now outdated. For the latest information about our facial age estimation technology, take a look at our dedicated fact sheet. ***** Facial age estimation is a valuable age assurance tool helping industries to provide age appropriate products and services worldwide. Using a combination of AI technology and liveness anti-spoofing, our tools are helping businesses know their customers are the right age to access their product or services without knowing anything more about them. We want to make sure you have all the information you need to navigate facial age estimation. We’ve compiled some
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Nov 16, 2021
Tackling child sexual abuse online with the Safety Tech Challenge Fund
We’re delighted to announce that the Safety Tech Challenge Fund 2021 has awarded Yoti and our collaborators with not one, but two rounds of funding. Working in partnership with Galaxkey & Image Analyzer and DragonflAI, we are looking to tackle child sexual abuse and demonstrate how end-to-end encryption and AI-powered image analysis could be used to create secure solutions that protects young people online. Between 2019 and 2020, over 10,000 cases of online child sexual abuse were reported to police forces across the UK. In efforts to create change to prevent such crimes, the UK
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Nov 05, 2021
Our age assurance solutions are approved by German regulators KJM and FSM to protect young people online
We’re excited to announce that The Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM) has approved our facial age estimation tool (formerly known as Yoti Age Scan) to be used in the German market to protect young people online. You can read the KJM press release here. This follows our approval from the German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Digital Media service providers (FSM) in 2020, which allowed German people to use digital age estimation and age verification technology for the first time ever to access digital adult content. You can read the FSM seal text here.
Press releases
Oct 26, 2021
Yoti’s facial age estimation technology provides accurate real-time age assurance for under 13s
The privacy-preserving technology launched to help social networks and other businesses protect children from harms Adults and children simply look into a camera to pass an age check using their face – there’s no need for an ID document and no personal data is held or shared LONDON – 26/10/2021 – Global digital identity network Yoti has today announced that its Facial Age Estimation technology has been extended to children under 13. This opens new opportunities for social networks, gaming brands and other businesses to protect children online and comply with regulations from online safety regulators – such as the
