Social media giant Meta is exploring a new feature on Instagram to verify teenagers’ ages on the app.
Instagram is currently testing video selfies with facial analysis software as a new age-verification method. Some app users try to beat the 13+ age rule by inputting the date of birth to make them appear over 18.
However, teenagers in the United States who attempt to “beat the system” would be given three (3) options to verify their ages; ask three adult users to vouch for them, upload an ID or take a video selfie.
— Instagram (@instagram) June 22, 2022
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With this new verification, Meta hopes there will be an “age-appropriate experience” on Instagram as they have been heavily criticized on teen and child safety on its platform.
Online platforms like banks and other digital companies are quite known for the use of video selfies to verify the ages of their customers, while Instagram; on the other hand, uses the method to verify users who have had their accounts locked out.
Meta has partnered with Yoti, a UK digital identification provider whose technology analyses age with human faces and facial features.
Yoti says its algorithm, trained on anonymous people’s facial images and their date of birth, can only identify the ages of users and nothing else about them.
Meta also announced that both companies would erase the image or videos of the user once their age has been confirmed.
Meanwhile, social vouching allows users to ask three mutual followers to confirm their age. Those being asked to verify how old a user is must be at least 18 and cannot be vouching for any other users at the time.
source https://www.jbklutse.com/trial-of-new-instagram-feature-to-verify-age-of-teenagers/
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