Age Verification
What is Age Verification?
Mechanisms used to verify the age of users accessing online services, particularly relevant for protecting children's privacy and complying with age-based regulations.
Terms that appear alongside age verification
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as age verification. The number is how many controls name both.
- consent 24 shared controls
- gdpr 14 shared controls
- data subject 11 shared controls
- profiling 10 shared controls
- genetic data 10 shared controls
- sensitive personal data 10 shared controls
- biometric data 10 shared controls
- health data 8 shared controls
Frameworks that govern age verification
What the standards actually require on age verification
Requirements naming age verification across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Pillar 1 invites Member States to support effective age-verification methods in line with the eID proposal from 2023 and to support the development of an EU-wide recognised digital proof of age based on date of birth within the framework of the eID proposal fr...
BIK-S2 · Age verification and EU-wide digital proof of age →Section 2 of KOSA establishes the knowledge + inference standard for identifying minor users while balancing privacy and over-verification concerns.
KOSA-Age-Verification-Inference-Section2-Knowledge-Standard-Reasonable-Steps-Age-Inference-Methods-Privacy-Preserving · KOSA Age Verification + Inference + Section 2 Knowledge Standard + Reasonable Steps + Age Inference Methods + Privacy-Preserving + Cohort Estimation + Facial Age Estimation + ID-Based + Parental Confirmation + Avoid Over-Verification →Services hosting content harmful to children must implement age verification or age estimation technologies to prevent children from accessing such content.
UKOSA-OFF-05 · Age Verification Requirements →Services likely to be accessed by minors must implement age appropriate measures including content filtering, parental information, and restricted feature defaults.
KISO.4.1 · Minor Protection and Age Verification →GLI-33 Player Account Management (PAM) + KYC + AML + payments. PAM REQUIREMENTS: (a) account registration with identity verification + age verification (18+ or 21+ depending on state) + jurisdictional eligibility;
GLI33-PAM-KYC-AML-Payments · GLI-33 Player Account Management, KYC, AML, Payment Processing and Account Lifecycle →Ghana DPA 2012 Sensitive Data + Children. SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA (Sec.2): race + ethnic origin + political opinions + religious + philosophical beliefs + trade union membership + health + sex life + sexual orientation + criminal convictions;
GhDPA-SensitiveData-Children · Sensitive Personal Data and Children's Data (Sec 5 + 35) →Questions people ask about age verification
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