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The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is seeking approval from the FTC to implement facial age estimation technology to stop kids skirting parental controls. If the industry’s self-regulating body gets its way, kids and their parents may need to get used to taking selfies to sign up for games. David Byrne on New Tech and AI | Gizmodo InterviewIn a recent application submitted by the ESRB, digital identity firm Yoti, and youth digital media company SuperAwesome, the three organizations jointly asked the FTC for…

Meta has been long experimenting with AI-based face scanning, especially for age verification. Last year, face scanning was introduced within Instagram for age verification, starting in the US. Now, it is being expanded to more countries in Europe, Mexico, Canada, South Korea, Australia and Japan. The social media app plans to bring age verification tools to more countries in the coming months.Instagram began asking users to disclose their age during the sign-up process in 2019, making it mandatory. According to…

Meta on Monday announced that it has introduced a new method for users to verify their age on its Facebook Dating service. Facebook is experimenting with methods, such as using an AI face scanner, to allow users of the platform's dating service to verify their age.Meta announced in a blog post that it would start prompting users on Facebook Dating to verify that they're over 18 if the platform suspects a user is underage.Users can then verify their age by sharing a selfie video that Facebook shares with a third-party…

Facebook dating debuted in 2019, but three years later it’s looking to make sure the people using the service are actual adults using a third-party company’s AI systems.Photo: Boumen Japet (Shutterstock)Meta may ask you to send the company a video of your face before letting you hit up fellow people looking for love on Facebook Dating, if only to verify you are indeed old enough to date online.On Monday, Meta announced it is updating its Facebook Dating service to “detect” if a user is lying about being younger than 18.…

Photo: Krill Kudryavsev (Getty Images)Instagram’s video selfie age verification system for teens went live this week in the United Kingdom, around six months after the the company began testing the tool.The verification method, which uses AI identification tools from U.K. based technology firm Yoti, will apply to U.K. users who try to edit their date of birth from under 18 years of age to over 18 years of age. Users altering their date of birth can alternatively opt to submit a photo of a drivers license or other accepted…

Image Source : PIXABAY Instagram Instagram is planning to add yet another feature and is experimenting with a new feature named, Notes, which would enable the users to post disappearing content with limited and selected friends and followers on the platform. The feature is being tested by the company and has been rolled out to a limited set of users. Well, this is for the time being and Instagram will allow the users to post quick notes, like announcements, to their "Close Friends" circle or to followers who also…

Instagram on Thursday said it is testing new methods for users to verify their age on the platform, starting with people in the US. The image sharing platform said it has partnered with Yoti, a company that specializes in online age verification just by scanning the face. Currently, Instagram asks users to verify their age only when teenagers try to edit their birth date to show them as 18 or older. To verify their age, users can send in pictures of various ID cards.…