Here’s how Meta will ban Facebook Dating for minors
Meta will start age verification on Facebook Dating: selfie videos that estimate age based on distinctive facial features, with the help of Artificial Intelligence or ID card upload to prevent access to under 18s
Meta bans under-18s from its dating app Facebook Dating.
Mark Zuckerberg's social giant is testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating. According to the company this move will make the product safer.
Launched in 2019 in the United States, Dating is a tab, or a new section within the Facebook social app. Users registered on Facebook can choose to participate in the dating game to find similar profiles among acquaintances and the entire social community. But Zuckerberg's dating app hasn't reached the popularity of rivals in the United States. From 2020 Facebook Dating is also available in Italy.
The new blocking minors, for the moment operational only in the United States, consist of two tools: the upload of the identity document which will be protected by encryption so as not to be read by anyone, and the video selfies which estimate the age based on the distinctive features of the face, with the help of Artificial Intelligence. For the latter function, in particular, Meta has collaborated with Yoti, a company specializing in age verification tools.
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YOTI'S AGE VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
With its technology and its artificial intelligence algorithms it will estimate the age based on the distinctive features of the face, it will share it with Facebook and the image will then be deleted. Meta points out that Yoti's technology is capable of identifying the age, not the identity of the subject.
Meta says they've had success on Instagram to limit usage to adults with this method. According to the Menlo Park group, Yoti's verification identified 96% of teenagers who attempted to disguise their real age.
THE META STRATEGY
“We want to make sure people have age-appropriate experiences, so we use technology to spot where people have misrepresented their age. If we detect that someone may be under 18 and is attempting to use Facebook Dating we will ask them to verify their age. “We plan to bring our age-sensing technology and verification tools to the other countries where Facebook Dating is available and to more services that require you to be of legal age to log in,” Meta added.
Therefore, the novelty will presumably also arrive in Italy and in the other countries where Facebook Dating is available.
“The company's age verification push aims to demonstrate to both users and regulators that it is a good steward of children's data and privacy,” Axios comments.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/ecco-come-meta-vietera-facebook-dating-ai-minori/ on Wed, 07 Dec 2022 06:43:52 +0000.