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
Age Verification providers welcome findings of Australian Trial
The Age Verification Providers Association, the global trade association for suppliers of age assurance technology, welcomed the preliminary findings of the Age Assurance Technology Trial, commissioned by the Australian Government. Highlights from these initial...
AVPA recommends changes to Draft EU Guidelines on protecting minors online
The Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) has submitted detailed feedback to the European Commission on its draft guidelines under Article 28 of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which aims to improve the online safety of minors. While we support the overarching...
Setting the Record Straight on Age Assurance: Why Today’s Technology Can Protect Children Without Violating Rights
In her recent piece for the R Street Institute, Shoshana Weissmann argues that laws requiring online age verification are unworkable because “most children don’t have IDs” and “age-estimation technology errs by years.” These criticisms paint an outdated and overly...