Meta announced today that it has started testing an Instagram age verification tool in Europe, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Japan and Australia. This new service aims to verify the real life of users under the legal age.
The new tool allows users to check their ages using one of the three options: download a copy of their knowledge, take a video of the user's face, or ask a joint friend to check his age. When users try to change their birth date on Instagram from less than 18 to 18 years old or older, the application will ask them to confirm their age using one of the three options.
Tools will be launched initially in the United States, and the company will publish it in other countries today and the world in the coming months.
Users who want to verify their ages can provide an identity such as ID card. B- A passport or driver’s license. Instagram stores identities on his servers for 30 days before deleting them. If the user does not have a valid identifier, he can choose one of the other ways.
Meta said she had been in partnership with the YOTI company, a specialist in verification of identity. The company uses artificial intelligence technology to automatically verify users' ages, and once the verification process is completed, the two companies delete data.
The option to verify the third age, called "social verification", allows the user to demand his followers to verify their age as long as the person who proves his identity is at least 18 years. The person in charge of the verification process will receive a request to verify the user's life and must respond within three days. Reviews have the option to identify an age group, for example: less than 13, 13-17, 18-20, 21 years old. Three people should choose the same age group to pass the process.
Meta says it has banned 96 % of adolescents who tried to change birthdays to 18 years or older on the application since the Instagram has started.
Instagram started asking new users to determine their birth date in 2019 to prevent anyone under the age of 13 from joining the application. In 2021, the application will make everyone to provide their birth date. In the same year, the company imposed restrictions on young people, for example B. Create standard personal accounts for users under the age of 16 and prohibit direct messages from strangers.