Age assurance
Press releases
Aug 10, 2020
Reflex Gaming and Yoti deliver safer amusements with digital age verification
London – 10/08/2020 – Reflex Gaming has integrated digital age verification technology from Yoti into its category C gaming machines for automated proof of age – protecting children while delivering a seamless gaming experience for adults. Established in 2004, Reflex is an independently-owned manufacturer and game developer with a significant and growing market share in the Pub Retail machine market and the Arcade, Bingo and Private Members Club sectors. Reflex has recently taken its land-based games to the global online and mobile markets, which will be enhanced by Yoti’s digital age and identity offering. The combination of Reflex and Yoti
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Jul 03, 2020
United for a safer internet with OSTIA
We’re honoured to be one of the founding members of the Online Safety Tech Industry Association (OSTIA), a new UK industry body dedicated to tackling online safety. The group brings together advisory bodies and tech companies in a shared goal of making the internet safer and hopes to provide a voice of hope by offering solutions to address key issues in a complex debate so often focused on what can’t be done. With support from the National Crime Agency, GCHQ, the Home Office, NSPCC, the group will serve as a forum for companies working on potential solutions and create collective
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Jul 02, 2020
Reinforcing our commitment to protecting children from online harms by joining the Point de Contact association
We are delighted to announce we have been accepted into the Point de Contact association to help the fight against abuse and inappropriate online content. Point de Contact was created in 1998 to contribute to the fight against illegal content on the internet and facilitate the reporting of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Point de Contact is also a member of the French Monitoring Committee for protecting children from online pornography and has been supported by successive European Commission programs. Point de Contact is a founding member of INHOPE – the International Association of Internet Hotlines which unites over 40
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Jun 02, 2020
Transforming the shopping experience with StrongPoint and automated age checks
We have joined forces with StrongPoint to transform the retail experience with automated technology that makes shopping smoother, faster and safer. Since the beginning of our collaboration back in 2018, we have streamlined Click & Collect, tobacco dispensing and automated self-checkout solutions to reduce the need for staff interventions. This gives shoppers a seamless and contactless experience, while saving retailers time and money. Our latest proposition is to introduce our anonymous age estimation technology, Yoti Age Scan, in StrongPoint self-checkouts, Click & Collect lockers and Vensafe dispensing machines. Customers will also be able to prove their age using their
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Apr 10, 2020
#Nudes4Sale: supporting the BBC’s expose of underage porn with our anonymous age estimation technology
A few months ago, Yoti was approached by the BBC to support their investigation into a growing trend on social media called #Nudes4Sale, a phenomenon that sees thousands of adults and teenagers making money from selling their own nude photos and videos. We helped them check the ages of the people sharing content on social media platforms with our anonymous age estimation solution, Yoti Age Scan. And the results were shocking. The full documentary is on the BBC iPlayer. You can find us at 13-17 minutes during which the BBC journalist runs profile pictures through our age estimation portal, and
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Feb 15, 2020
Safer Internet Day with the Marie Collins Foundation
‘Free to be me’ was the theme for this year’s Safer Internet Day, which was marked by new research from the UK Safe Internet Centre that found young people’s online experiences are an essential part of who they are offline. The freedom that young people enjoy online is found to be building an informed and inspired generation, but it is also making them vulnerable to an unprecedented level of online grooming and sexual abuse. The internet has largely escaped regulation through fear that restricting access to information is censorship, but as more and more of our lives are lived out