Age assurance tech trial highlights providers for verification, estimation
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# Age assurance tech trial highlights providers for verification, estimation
Report acknowledges issues with 13+ threshold, but tech is improving at pace
Sep 3, 2025, 4:38 pm EDT | Joel R. McConvey
Categories Age Assurance | Biometric R&D | Biometrics News
Australia’s Age Assurance Technology Trial has published its final report, and while the organizers have been careful to frame the results as an examination of what’s possible rather than a recommendation on specific age assurance technologies, there are still some evident winners.
The report assesses firms based on the type of age assurance they provide. Age verification and age estimation are the two main biometric methods for checking age – the former somewhat more established than the latter. A few firms overlap in offering both.
## Age verification vendors display ‘strong commitment’ to privacy
For age verification, 29 providers participated. Of those, 21 are assessed to be at Technology Readiness Level 8 or 9. These include collectives like Australian Payments Plus, the government agency Austroads, and many familiar providers: VerifyMy, AgeChecked, IDVerse, GBG, iProov, Yoti, Persona, Trust Stamp, Luciditi and Private ID, to name a few. DigiChek and ConnectID (from Australian Payments Plus) get nods for the consistency of their privacy practices as measured against their policies. Yoti is named as “one of the most privacy-forward platforms” in the trial.
(Notably, among those not included in the top tier is Google – although there were assumptions early on that it wouldn’t be a factor.)
“The evaluation found that independent age verification service providers demonstrated a strong and consistent commitment to privacy by design, data minimization and secure data handling.
These practices were embedded both at the technical architecture level and in the providers’ internal policies, aligning closely with the principles and requirements outlined in ISO/IEC FDIS 27566-1, the emerging international sta