A Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Age Assurance: Considerations Towards an Interoperable Age Assurance Framework

These key takeaways come from a roundtable held on June 13 in Brussels, in collaboration with the WeProtect Global Alliance.

CIPL and WeProtect explored what a broader, interoperable framework for age assurance could look like, while ensuring privacy, user autonomy, and transparency.

Key takeaways from the Workshop on Interoperability:

• Key elements that could still be considered for an interoperable framework, include: fair competition, cost allocation, clarity on liability, cross-sector collaboration, robust complaint and redress mechanisms.
• Regulators should be open to innovation as well as promote a common understanding and taxonomy of age assurance methods in order to bridge existing regulatory gaps.
• Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) continue playing an important role in limiting unnecessary data sharing.
• Government-held information, mobile phone service providers, and financial institutions could provide signal to be deployed in the 13-18 age assurance context.
• Ongoing concerns in age assurance include tailoring protections to potential risks, balancing parental engagement and provider responsibility, and addressing new challenges from emerging technologies such as AI.

A Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Age Assurance: Considerations Towards an Interoperable Age Assurance Framework

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