Facebook Dating adds age verification tools to protect under 18s


The move follows the introduction of similar technology on another Meta platform, Instagram, which asks users who attempt to edit their date of birth from under 18 to over 18 to verify their age through the same system. — dpa

LONDON: Facebook’s dating platform is to introduce age verification tools to confirm that only adults are accessing the over-18 version of the app.

Parent company Meta is to use age assurance technology from UK firm Yoti on Facebook Dating, which will ask users to upload an ID document or use Yoti’s facial age estimation technology, which analyses a selfie taken by the user.

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