To better target age-appropriate and relevant content and advertising to younger and older users, as well as to be more compliant with regulations, has been a long-term goal of the company. A new set of features is being tested by the Meta-owned platform to verify when people say they are 18 and older.
Users of the U.S. will be able to see these options if they try to change their age.
There are two basic use cases for this new verification system, which are adults who have registered as teens by mistake and teens who try to circumvent the platform's age-appropriate restrictions. Changes to those restrictions include making accounts for younger people private.
This doesn't affect the check at the registration process where you have to enter your birthdate You must be at least 13 years old to sign up for the service.
You will be prompted to choose one of the options when you change your age from under 18 to over. If you want to verify, you need an ID card like a passport or a driver's license. You will be kept on the company's server for 30 days before being deleted.
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You can use the video selfies method for age verification if you don't have a valid ID. This part of the verification is being done by Yoti, a London based startup. Yoti uses a specially trained artificial intelligence to verify a user's age after uploading a video selfies. The data is deleted once the verification process is over.
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Yoti claims that the artificial intelligence can estimate your age, but can't identify you. The firm said it has trained its model from images of users who have consented for their data to be used.
Social Vouching is one of the three ways to verify your age. Three of your friends who are at least 18 years old can vouch for you, but they can't vouch for anyone else. According to the company, the vouchee gets a list of six people with no family members on it.
A confirmation request will be sent to the people you choose, and they have three days to respond. Under 13 years old, 17 years old, 18 years old, 21 years or older are some of the age brackets that the people vouching for you will be able to specify. Your age verification must be approved by all three of them.
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All the information you give for age verification is private and won't be seen by anyone. The company said that teens should be able to have a safe experience with all apps and services.
Understanding someone's age online is difficult. Setting clear standards for age verification online is something we want to work on. Teens don't always have access to the forms of ID that make age verification easy. The company said in a statement that they have to explore novel ways to verify someone's age when they don't have an identification.
Users who are lying about their age are being detected by Meta. Birthday posts are signals that it looks for to identify the true age of a user. Teens are kept away from experiences like Facebook Dating and Mentorship by the company's artificial intelligence.
The age check was introduced by asking for birthdates. Everyone was required to give their birthdate later in the year.
It launched restrictions for teens like making accounts private by default for under-16 users, blocking senders from unknown adults, and stopping advertisers from serving targeted ads based on teens' interests and activities. Last year, TikTok introduced similar restrictions for users under 18.
The Wall Street Journal reported last year that the mental health of young users was not taken into account by the company. The firm took a number of steps after facing backlash, including shelving its plans for a dedicated kids app and stronger parental controls. Teens are trying to protect themselves from harmful content.
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