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Ofcom lists options for checking social media users’ ages

Ofcom has outlined ways for social media services to verify the ages of their users. The approaches it identifies include photo identification and digital ID, banking checks, and facial age estimation, which it says can help establish whether someone is 16 or older.

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Ofcom lists options for checking social media users’ ages
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What to know

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    Ofcom lists photo identification, digital ID and banking checks among age-verification options.

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    Facial age estimation is another option; these methods can help establish whether a user is 16 or older.

Why it matters

These methods concern how social media services verify whether users are at least 16.

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