Meta has announced that Instagram will receive new tools for age verification, said system will request an ID document or Video Selfie as a mechanism to verify the age of its usersAccording to the European press, this measure will go into effect on November 8 for users in Spain, where the minimum age to use the platform is 14.
In this way, If a user wishes to change their profile age to 18 years or older, the platform will automatically request verification. to support this change. This is because, as Instagram's Director of Public Policy, Tara Hopkins, has stated, it's important to know the age of the profiles using the platform to ensure the experience is "age-appropriate," and that is "a challenge" for the industry.
Thus, although these measures were already announced last June, they will begin to be implemented in Spain this Monday, and they consist of age verification. through ID or driver's license, and Video Selfie verification.
In the case of selecting verification by means of an identity document, once the age has been verified, The document image will be “securely” stored for 30 days. After the seal, it will be deleted, as Instagram has assured in a press release sent to Europa Press.
On the other hand, if video verification is required selfie, a will be used Age verification technology developed by Yoti, a specialist company in this field.This technology will estimate the age of the account owner, however, it does not have a facial recognition system or personal identification.
That is, it cannot recognize a user's identity, only their age. Yoti's technology cannot recognize a user's identity, only their age. learn or recognize the person's name and, once the age has been verified, the video will be deleted immediately.
In this sense, Hopkins has insisted that "it is a very important step" and has expressed his satisfaction in working with 'Yoti', who "is leading the way in building a effective technology to determine age, while maintaining privacy standards,” he said.
For her part, Julie Dawson, Director of Policy and Regulation at Yoti, acknowledged the complexity of proving age online, while ensuring that its facial age estimation technology "respects privacy." Dawson also stated that it is the "most secure" way to prove a person's age, without having to share their name or ID.
Meta announced that soon the Instagram users will be able to create and sell non-fungible tokens, known as NFTs, within the social network itself, where until now only collectibles could be displayed.
The company, which also owns WhatsApp, announced this decision during the Creator Week 2022 event, where developers and programmers exchange knowledge and experiences to improve service creation processes for Meta.
The company confirmed in March that these assets would reach their social networks and that, over time, they could be mintedIt wasn't until May that he started testing so that certain users could host NFT collections and link their crypto wallets.
Already in August he announced that the Users had the ability to publish and share their NFTs through both Facebook and Instagram and expanded these digital collectibles across the latter app's accounts to 100 more countries in the Americas, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas.
Until now, Meta did not allow users to sell such collectibles, something that will change soon with a set of tools that Instagram plans to introduceThese will be used for both the creation and display and sale of assets.
The company has announced that, for the time being, is only testing this feature with a small group of creators in the United States., although he hopes to expand it to other countries soon, as he indicated in his blog.
Additionally, it has commented that it is expanding the types of digital collectibles that can be displayed on the platform to incorporate video, and has added support for the Solana blockchain and the Phantom digital wallet.
He also noted that information about collections whose metadata is integrated into OpenSea, such as their names and corresponding descriptions, can now be viewed from Instagram itself.
*With information from Europa Press.
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