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– Does age assurance create a risk of surveillance?

by | Mar 18, 2026

No.  The essence of age assurance is proving your age without revealing your identity.  Primarily, that is about not revealing your name to the age-restricted websites or apps you are using, but this also extend to using privacy-by-design to prevent anyone linking a...

– Can age assurance disadvantage LGBTQI+ communities?

by | Sep 30, 2025

Age assurance is applied equally to everyone, so the technology itself has no disproportionate effect on any particular group. The question of what content or functionality is age-restricted is for democratically elected politicians, but one note of caution is the...

– How is my personal data protected by independent AV Providers?

by | Feb 10, 2022

A good starting assumption for this answer is that the only un-hackable database is no database at all. Data protection legislation (GDPR) already requires data minimisation – only using and retaining the data required for the purpose at hand.  It is possible to...

– Will AV create a record of your online activities?

by | Feb 10, 2022

Providing age verification does not require a record of the purpose for which an age check is carried out. In medicine, a “double-blind clinical trial” is one where neither the researchers nor the patient are aware of whether the latter has had a real drug...

– Does age estimation through biometrics put my privacy at risk?

by | Feb 10, 2022

A particularly sensitive topic is the use of biometrics, such as facial images or voiceprints, to estimate the age of a user.  The first thing to say is that such methods never require the retention of this sensitive personal data. The software does not need to use...