Yoti responds to Ofcom’s counterfactual statements on age assurance tech

Comments from the UK’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) regarding age verification display a marked lack of understanding around the science and capacities of existing age verification and age estimation tools.

In comments made on the BBC’s Today programme, Ofcom Chief Executive Melanie Dawes says “age assurance technologies which scan your face and estimate your age don’t work very well on children because children can look so different at different ages.”

Yoti’s Robin Tombs has something to say …

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