Dipping into Data | Age assurance: the data protection perspective

Age assurance is either at – or quickly reaching – the top of many online digital services' compliance agendas. Age assurance underpins existing and proposed digital regulation (for example, under the UK's existing Online Safety Act or the EU's proposed EU KIDS ACT), even if the requirements vary between different categories of service or the level of risk to users.

Providers of online digital services must grapple not only with how to verify or estimate users' ages, but whether doing so can be done lawfully and fairly. Join us for a focused 30-minute session unpacking the key data protection principles that every organisation deploying age assurance solutions needs to understand.

Why attend?

Gain a clear overview of the different methods of age assurance, from age verification to age estimation, and their respective data protection implications, including the tension between accuracy and data minimisation.

Understand how core GDPR principles (data minimisation, fairness and accuracy) apply in practice when implementing age assurance solutions, and where the risks lie.

Further materials:

• Coming soon: our Age Assurance Comparison Table, a practical tool to help you navigate and compare the landscape of available age assurance solutions.
• Save the date: we will shortly be announcing details of our upcoming in-person platforms event, bringing together voices across the Platforms subsector to discuss the issues shaping the industry, where these themes will be explored in greater depth.
• The newly proposed EU KIDS ACT represents one of the most significant new legislative proposals affecting digital services and children's online safety. Our lawyers have identified key issues businesses should be considering as the proposal develops. Read more >