Making the Internet “age-aware”
The AVPA is the global trade body for independent providers of privacy-protecting, standards-based,
age assurance technology.
Our objectives
Inform and educate the public, industry and media on age verification and age estimation solutions and technology.
Promote a positive image of privacy-preserving age assurance and the independent sector which delivers it.
Represent the industry to regulators and law makers for the advancement of best practice.
The tipping point
The Age Verification Providers Association is a not-for-profit global trade body representing 26 organisations who provide age assurance solutions (both age verification and age estimation), proportionate to the risk of harm.
We have reached a tipping point where all but the most innocuous of websites need to know the age – not the identity – of their users to remain compliant with a tsunami of new legislation, including:
- Europe’s GDPR, Digital Services Act and Video Sharing Platform laws
- Age Appropriate Design Codes in the UK, California and, coming soon, the EU
- Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the USA
- Australia and the UK’s Online Safety Acts
- India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act
The AVPA was formed in 2018 and is growing rapidly as the age and identity provider industry takes off.
For information on our membership categories and how to join get more information below
Our Members
2025 – The year of implementation for age assurance
2025 promises to be a very busy year in the world of age verification. In this post, we, as the global trade body for suppliers of age verification and age estimation solutions, look forward to what to expect over the next 12 months. Implementing global legislation...
How will the Supreme Court apply the US Constitution to online pornography?
How does a constitution written over 200 years ago adapt its set of rules for governing to the age of the Internet? This is a question the US Supreme Court will tackle on January 15, when it considers if the elected representatives of the people of the Great State of...
AVPA files
The AVPA has filed an amicus brief in Free Speech Coalition vs Paxton, a case which will be heard on January 15th 2025 with a decision expected to be handed down in the summer. Our aim is to ensure the Court understands how the latest age verification and age...