FTC passes on biometric age estimation approval request from Yoti and partners

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has declined to approve biometric age estimation as a method of verifying parental consent under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA).

Commissioners voted 4-0 to deny the application, but left room for it to be refiled in the future. Specifically, the FTC notes a forthcoming report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The request to consider adding “privacy-preserving facial age estimation” to the list of approved methods was submitted last year by …

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