Soon terminals to check the age of the players in the tobacconists? La Française des jeux has been testing facial analysis software for three months to assess whether they are of legal age, an official with start-up Yoti said on Wednesday.
In order to play, the young customers had the possibility to present their identity document or scan their face in a terminal installed in the store, explained Florian Chevoppe-Verdier, head of public policy at Yoti, a world leader in this rapidly developing sector, on the occasion of the International Cybersecurity Forum.
The company, which has trained artificial intelligence on millions of faces, says it determines age to an accuracy of 1.6 years. “We therefore set the bar in 20 years,” explained his manager, during a conference. If the age is estimated below, the person will have to show an identity document, she added.
Asked by AFP, the FDJ said it had been working “for a year on image analysis and majority certification solutions” with Yoti, adding that they were still “prototypes.” This solution is already widely used in the United Kingdom, in hypermarkets for the purchase of alcohol or even, also being tested, in tobacconists, said Iain Corby, executive director of the World Association of Age Assessment Solution Providers.
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Yoti is also a partner with Instagram worldwide to ban people under 13 from the social network. The user must make a video of his face “and, if they ask you to change the camera, it is to make sure that you are real,” says the company. Yoti, a member of the Child Protection Laboratory created by the Élysée in November, also hopes to be selected as a technical solution and as a trusted third party for online age verification, which will be imposed in particular on pornographic sites.
“If the government decided, we could activate an age rating on all porn sites within 24 hours,” Yoti’s manager said. His technique does not allow identification but only the assessment of age. It is based on the analysis of anonymized facial pixels and the photos are not stored, he stressed.
However, Florian Chevoppe-Verdier recognized that the system was not foolproof. “For example, life on the street prematurely ages the face,” he explained. This is why, in the UK, Yoti refused to assess the age of migrants.
Source: BFM TV
