Ofcom lists four age checks for the UK social media ban
Original title: Photo ID, bank checks, face scan? The UK’s age-check options
Platforms could use photo ID, bank data, facial estimation, or a digital identity service.
Ofcom has described four methods it considers highly effective for checking that social media users are 16 or over ahead of the UK’s planned ban. Parliament and the government still decide how the ban works. The Malwarebytes commentary weighs privacy, error near age 16, and workarounds such as VPNs and borrowed credentials.
Unconfirmed: How the ban will be implemented has not been decided.
- Photo ID matching compares a live image with a passport or similar document.
- Bank checks would use age data the bank already holds, with consent.
- Ofcom says facial estimates can be wrong by a few years around age 16.
- A cited Discord support-provider breach exposed government ID images of about 70,000 users.
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Ofcom has set out four possible age-verification methods for UK’s under-16 social media ban.
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