Key ICO resources and UK info/standards on age checking/assurance & the Children's Code are below.
ICO work to date on children's privacy and age estimation/verification:
- Measurement of age assurance technololgies, jointly commissioned with Ofcom under the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF), Aug 23 (previous report pt.1, Oct 22)
- ICO-approved certifications under UK GDPR in 2021 include (news release)
- Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) testing age assurance products work (tech requirements ACCS 2:2021)
- Age Appropriate Design Certification Scheme (AADCS) criteria for age appropriatedesign of information society services (tech requirements ACCS 3:2021)
- (I mention this first as many people don't seem to know about them)
- Evaluation report on Children's Code & summary, Mar 23
- Response to the Call for Evidence and roundtables on age assurance, Feb 23
- Age assurance opinion, Oct 21
- Seers Child Privacy Consent Management Platform (CPCMP) sandbox report, Oct 21
- Yubo Age Appropriate Design Code Audit Report, Oct 22
- Yoti age estimation tech for younger children sandbox report, Apr 22 & its AADC audit, Dec 21
- Age-AppropriateDesign Code itself
Also relevant:
- UK's 2022 trials of age verification technology in alcohol sales - interestingly, several using Yoti's age estimation tech - mostly facial, some ID documents, one biometric finger vein
- PAS 1296:2018 Online age checking. Provision and use of online age check services Code of Practice and tech requirements ACCS 4:2020 for checks based on that
- IEEE Standard for an Age Appropriate Digital Services Framework Based on the 5Rights Principles for Children, Nov 21