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.
Member States are invited to support effective age-verification methods in line with the European Digital Identity proposal, including by choosing to issue electronic IDs to the under-18s.
eu-better-internet-for-kids-bik-strategy::MS1.1 · MS1.1 Member States: support effective age verification →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 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 →Children's personal data is collected or processed only with prior consent of a parent, guardian or other person with authority, where needed to comply with the law, or for research or statistics;
uganda-data-protection-and-privacy-act-2019::s8 · Children's data and age verification →Services that publish their own pornographic content must use highly effective age verification or age estimation so children are not normally able to encounter it, keep a written record of the methods used and how privacy was considered, and publish a summary...
uk-online-safety-act-2023::s.81 · Age assurance for provider pornographic content (Part 5) →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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