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Instagram has been testing for months with a new age verification system. He pretends with him Keep children under 13 away from the app and try to be more strict in controlling new accounts opened on the social network. In October the tests were extended through countries such as India and Brazil and, as of this Monday, the show arrives in Spain.
It's important to emphasize that these new measures are activated when you try to change your age to 18 or older, and that, at this time, there's no mention of their full implementation for registering from scratch on the app, or even opening an Instagram account.
Instagram has implemented new verification measures in Spain since yesterday, Monday, November 7. The first is identification. through DNI or driver's licenseThe app, through its API to access our device's camera, will ask us to take a photo of our ID, so it can subsequently be verified within a maximum of two days.
Meta ensures that The document will be stored “securely” for 30 days in its database, to be deleted later. This ID verification feature is quite typical in other apps, but this is not so true with the second method introduced by Instagram.
Yoti's technology estimates your age based on your facial features and shares that estimate with us. Meta and Yoti then delete the image. Technology cannot recognize your identity, just your age.
Together with Yoti, a company specialized in digital identification, Instagram has implemented a system of recognition via selfieThe key and the curious thing here is that the system will estimate your age And based on that, they'll decide whether or not to verify you. They assure us that neither Yoti nor Meta store the video you recorded, and that they can only recognize your age, not the person's identity.
The third and final method to verify age Will our common followers do it?, a method that's surprisingly inaccurate and unreliable. In this third scenario, our followers (who must be at least 18 years old, according to the app) will receive a request to confirm our age.
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