Global Push for Kids' Online Safety: Age-Checking Tech Gets Smarter, Cheaper

• Age-checking technology is rapidly maturing due to a global wave of online safety laws for children.
• Governments in Australia, Europe, Brazil, and US states are implementing aggressive age-checking requirements for social networks and AI.
• Advancements in AI have made age assurance software more effective and significantly reduced its cost.
• Face-scanning accuracy has improved, with companies like Yoti reporting average age estimation errors as low as 1.04 years for teens.
• Australia's recent ban on teen social media accounts led to 4.7 million suspected underage accounts being locked by platforms like Meta and Snapchat.