Since last Monday, November 7, Instagram has begun rolling out age verification tools to Spanish users., as The company already announced this a few months ago in a post on its websiteIn our country, the minimum age to use the Meta social network is 14, but until a few days ago, minors could change this to the age of majority without too much difficulty. From now on, there will be more stringent age controls for Instagram users, an app where you can share a friend's Stories in your stories either post your photos on Twitter automatically.
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There will be Two ways for social network users to verify their age. First of all, Instagram will give its users the option to verify themselves by uploading a image of your ID card or driver's licenseThe interesting thing about this proposal is that the image uploaded to Meta's servers will remain there for 30 days, after which it will be automatically deleted.
Instagram will verify the age of its users with their ID and their image. Instagram
Instagram will verify the age of its users with their ID and their image. Instagram
Secondly, as stated by Instagram's Director of Public Policy, Tara Hopkins, in the publication of the Europa Press news agency, Verification can be done through a selfie video. Thanks to the collaboration with the Yoti company, an expert in digital identification, the video will be used to determine the age of the user, although the major inconvenience seems to come from the inability of this system to verify the identity of the person that appears in the video.
There is a third option, although it does not seem to be contemplated for the Spanish market, which was also put on the table when Instagram published the news on its website and called it Social Vouching, something like Social Reference. With this verification method, It would be the followers themselves who would confirm the user's age., as long as they are over 18 years old and have not served as a reference for other people. They would be a maximum of three users those who would receive the request, who would have to respond to it in the within 3 daysThis option is not yet available in Spain, where official documentation and video selfies are currently the only valid methods for confirming the age of social network users.
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