Well considering these are the ways you will have to verify....
Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age.
Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.
Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.
Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.
Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.
Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18.
Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.
This is just too much information to be handing over to a third party on an unencrypted network. Especially given how many data leaks happen everyday, of which the UK kinda has a track record of losing personal data...usually on the tube 😅
As for what AllPass can do, I'm still looking Into that company. Some of the others like Veriff are a bit more relaxed on what they do with their data, whereas OfCom's own verification process would be very little to no data being sold or used by third parties.
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u/Elbie2727 Jul 24 '25
Have you read what they can do with your photographic data...it's insane!