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Listen: How age assurance platforms earn trust

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The world has more or less decided that some online services should be age-restricted. The question now is, how to do it in such a way that people trust online age assurance , the same way they trust an airline or a bank. How can a user prove their age without giving up any other information? How can systems enable them to use one check more than once, so as not to have to prove their age over and over again? And, what do providers need to do in order to build trust in the age assurance ecosystem overall? This episode of the Biometric Update Podcast features two leaders from the field of age assurance debating those very questions. Tony Allen of the Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) has argued (with caveats) that orchestrators, tokenization schemes and other startups working with interoperability mechanisms can muddy the trust established in the original age check. Julian Corbett runs OpenAge – a passkey-based age initiative that, so far, is the most visibly successful version of t

First report: No Two People Age in the Same Way — nautil.us, 11d