by Rebecca Burgess | Jul 9, 2026
Phishing is a risk for every online service, including banking, and the defences here are layered. You do not have to find or judge an age assurance provider alone: the digital service you are accessing chooses which providers to integrate, and platforms carry out due...
by Rebecca Burgess | Jul 9, 2026
Under the ‘double-blind’ model, originally demanded by the French data protection authority, CNIL, but now becoming an industry standard, the provider confirms your age without recording a user linked history of which sites requested checks, and the website learns...
by Rebecca Burgess | Jul 9, 2026
That instinct is correct, and it is the assumption the age assurance industry applies in its privacy-by design approach. No system can promise perfect security forever, so well-designed age checks do not depend on defending large stores of data. They depend on not...
by Rebecca Burgess | Jul 9, 2026
Generally, such stories relate either to digital identity products rather than age assurance, or to legacy systems never designed to meet the standards required in the age verification sector. In one widely quoted example, users may have had government ID photos...
by Rebecca Burgess | Jul 9, 2026
Collection should be the minimum needed to answer one question. For facial estimation that is an image processed for a few seconds. For a bank or mobile network operator check it is a yes or no answer from an institution that already knows your age. A properly...
