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 34 organisations who provide age assurance solutions (both age verification, age estimation and age inference), 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
BMJ publishes research confirming age assurance is not being deployed in Australia
A study published in the BMJ on 24 June 2026 looked at what actually happened to Australian teenagers in the three months after the Social Media Minimum Age Act came into force in December 2025. The headline conclusion has been widely reported as proof that age...
AVPA Response to Prime Minister’s Announcement on Social Media
PRESS RELEASE AVPA Response to Prime Minister's Announcement on Social Media The Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) confirms that the age assurance requirements needed to support a minimum age of 16 for social media are technically achievable using...
Is the EU Age Verification App Ready for a Social Media Minimum Age?
The EU Age Verification App was initially designed with a specific purpose: to demonstrate to adult-only services - pornography platforms in particular - that there was a technically feasible, GDPR-compliant mechanism to implement an 18+ minimum age. And it has...