Instagram is testing out a trial in which it scans users' faces for proof they are over 18 years old:
The company announced the trial, which began on 23 June and is currently only being rolled out in the US, in a blog post. The trial is focused on users who try to change their age on the app from under 18 to over 18. Those users have three ways to verify their age: upload a photo of their ID, ask three mutual friends verify their age, or record a video selfie.
If a user selects the video selfie method, Instagram passes the videos to a London-based identity-verification startup, Yoti. Yoti will scan the user's facial features in the videos to confirm their ages, the company said.
Both Yoti and Instagram will delete the data once they've verified the user's age, per the announcement. The London startup's algorithm only verifies the user's age and not their identity, Instagram wrote, quoting a whitepaper from Yoti.
[...] If a user chooses to submit a photo of their ID to confirm their age, the image will be deleted after 30 days, the company said.
You can try the Yoti Demo yourself (the company pinky-swears they delete any data you share with them).
See also: Instagram is testing an AI tool that verifies your age by scanning your face
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bmimatt on Monday June 27 2022, @07:22PM (4 children)
(Score: 4, Interesting) by looorg on Monday June 27 2022, @07:47PM (2 children)
As anyone should know "delete" is not the same as something being gone. It's just not linked to anymore in a user friendly kind of way.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @08:29PM (1 child)
And sometimes it's just a field named "Deleted" in a database table.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday June 28 2022, @05:07PM
That's totally bogus. That's what we call deaccessioning, because it could be useful to have the data at some point. Just not now.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @11:55PM
A selfie video gets deleted after an age is determined, but if you scan and upload your ID, they can hold it for up to 30 days???