Instagram is working on a new tool to know the exact age of users. The latest reports suggest that the company is testing an AI tool that will scan your face to check your age. Apart from this AI tool option, there is another method called ‘Social Vouching’. How old is this method to your followers? Says to confirm it. These followers must be over 18 years of age.
Added the same verification feature after the year 2019
The user must be at least 13 years old to open an account on Instagram. The app didn't ask for new users' dates of birth until 2019, but after discussions with an privacy and child safety expert, Instagram added a feature for Edge Verification after 2019.
Start testing AI tool
Instagram is testing an AI tool that asks you to take a video selfie to check your age. Yoti, a third-party company, is involved in Instagram to make the process easier. He uses machine learning to estimate a person's age. In a blog post, Instagram says, ‘Yoti’s technique estimates your age based on your facial features and shares that estimate with us. Meta and Yoti then delete the image. Technology can't recognize your identity, it can only know your age. '
The UK government and German digital regulators use Yoti's technology
Yoti's technology is used for age verification by the UK government and German digital regulators. He uses various facial expressions to estimate age. Another method of checking age is the ‘Social Vouching’ system. When the user selects this, Instagram asks the three mutual followers of the user to confirm the age of the user. It gives followers three days to respond. Users can also send a photo of their ID card to Instagram to verify their age. Currently when teenagers try to edit their date of birth and try to show them as 18 years of age or older, the app asks them to check their age. However, two new age verification options, Social Vouching and AI estimation, are active in the US.
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