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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: 2) by istartedi on Tuesday June 28 2022, @09:03PM
We have software that ages your face. You see it all the time when the news mentions a missing person case that's been cold for years.
I don't know how accessible that software is, since I'm way past the age of needing to fake my ID so I don't care to dig deep. However, it seems like just a matter of time before they pipe the selfie pix through the aging software.
This is assuming that the company cares more than college town bartenders. True story: one of our friends at school (age 18 or 19 at the time), a scrawny white dude, he found a driver's license that belonged to a 40 year old Black woman. He showed it to the door man and got in. Plainly, ID check was security theater. The local grocery did eventually have their license suspended for selling whole kegs and cases of beer to under-aged though, so the authorities did have some kind of limit.
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