Age assurance tech is ready now, and international standards are on their way

The Global Age Assurance Standards Summit has wrapped up, culminating in a set of assertions, a seven-point call-to-action and four main principles for protecting young people from the risks of age-inappropriate goods and services.

The event convened more than 700 stakeholders for a week of consultation and debate about the future of standards for age assurance, what their goals should be and how they can be achieved technically, with support from the Safe Online initiative and the British Standards Institute …

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