Starting Monday, if you want to change your age, you will have to use a video selfie or an identification document.
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Instagram is going to start verifying the age of its users. Meta has stated that they are going to use new tools to know the real age of their users. For it, the user will use a video selfie or an identification document. The minimum age to use the social network is 14 years old, and the goal is to ensure it.
As reported by Tara Hopkins, Director of Public Policy at Instagram, it is very important for them to know the age of their users in order to ensure their safety, and that the content they see is age-appropriate. In addition, she has said that it is a great challenge for the industry.
The user will have two ways to verify their age:
– With an identification document: You can use a photo of your ID or driving license to verify your age. Instagram has said that photo will be stored safely for 30 days. At the end of time, as they said in a press release sent to Europa Press, that image will be removed.
– Video selfie: The company “Yoti” has created a technology that can estimate the age of a person with a video of his face. This system does not save the identification or the name of the user, and once the age is verified, it deletes the video.
According to Hopkins, this “is a very important big step” and highlights the work of the partner company Yoti: “it is leading the way in building an effective technology to verify age, while maintaining privacy standards” .
Source: Eitb
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