Instagram is testing new ways to verify the age of its users, including an AI face identification tool to make sure people are 18 or older.
There are no tools yet to prevent children from accessing the Meta platform.
The use of artificial intelligence to identify faces, especially in teenagers, has raised some concerns given the Meta’s complicated history. when it comes to protecting user privacy.
Meta stressed that the technology used to check the age of people can’t find out your identity – only your age. After completion of Meta validation in partnership with startup Yoti delete face video.
The owner of Facebook and Instagram said that from today, if anyone tries to change their date of birth on the platform for posting videos and photos of people under or over 18, you will need to verify your age using one of these methods.
Meta continues to face questions about the negative impact its products, especially Instagram, have on some teens.
Technically, children must be at least 13 years old to join Instagram, similar to other social networks. But some solve this problem by lying about their age or by having their parents do it.
To use the face scan feature, the user has to send a “selfie” videosent to Yoti, a London-based startup that uses people’s facial features to estimate their age.
Yoti is one of several biometric companies that are capitalizing on the UK and European push for more reliable age verification technology. to prevent children from accessing pornography, dating apps, and other adult content.
“While Instagram is likely making good on its promise to remove images of candidates’ faces and not attempting to use them for individual facial recognition, the normalization of facial scans raises other social concerns,” a professor at Cambridge University Essex School of Law warned. (United Kingdom) Darag Murray.
In 2021, Meta announced that it was shutting down Facebook’s facial recognition system and removing the fingerprints of more than a billion people after years of scrutiny by courts and regulators.
