OMG.
Ofcom will have to deliver acceptable / target “failure” metrics for AV & social media blocks.
Maybe even false positives & false negatives.
This is an epic read even though it comes from a pro-AV and somewhat slanted website.
[popcorn intensifies]
UK tech secretary asks Ofcom to clarify what ‘highly effective age assurance’ looks like | Biometric Update
Extract:
Metrics-based approach could satisfy long-standing request from industry
A possible outcome of Ofcom’s assessment is a statistical baseline for accuracy in biometric matching algorithms. While user choice remains a paramount concern for the age assurance industry and relying parties alike, major providers have long called for a concrete rubric against which age assurance products can be assessed.
Tony Allen, executive director of the Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) and a co-author of the ISO/IEC 27566-1 standard on age assurance, has posted on LinkedIn, offering to help Ofcom with its assigned task. Certainly, the standard and the findings collected over three years of Global Age Assurance Standards Summits (which Allen runs) could provide Ofcom with useful insights.
The responses to Allen’s post, however, are the more revealing bit. The AVPA notes how, “given both Ofcom and the ICO announced (during your Global age assurance standards summit) they now believe highly effective age assurance is possible at 13, it would be contradictory to suggest 16 is not feasible.”
This garners a reply from Siobhán MacDermott, CEO of TeenAegis – a company that, per its LinkedIn page, “applies the behavioral detection architecture of global finance to the protection of children online.”
“Why do you think it’s ok to create a database of minors and their photos?” MacDermott asks. “Especially when the technology is provided by Palantir?”
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