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
AVPA responds to criticisms from computer scientists
We set out below a short response to the main arguments put forward in a “Joint statement of security and privacy scientists and researchers on Age Assurance” signed by over 400 academics. We welcome this new level of interest in the field but their letter raises...
AVPA corrects the record with US House Committee on Energy and Commerce
We have submitted a letter to the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce in response to a letter submitted by Americans for Prosperity, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the Software & Information Industry Association. [embeddoc...
Federal Trade Commission Workshop summaries
Below are summaries of the presentations and panel's from last week's FTC workshop. (Please note these have been in part machine-generated, so you are advised to refer to the video of the full proceedings to confirm exactly what was said by any speaker) which is...