Age Verification
Compliant, frictionless age verification for regulated platforms. Confirm your users meet minimum age requirements in seconds — without creating unnecessary barriers.
The regulatory landscape around age verification is expanding rapidly. Across the United States, states like Louisiana, Virginia, Utah, Texas, Montana, and Arkansas have passed laws requiring age verification for access to age-restricted content, gambling platforms, and other regulated services. Federally, COPPA continues to protect children under 13 from unauthorized data collection, with increasing enforcement activity from the FTC.
Internationally, the EU's Digital Services Act and GDPR age-of-consent provisions add further requirements for platforms operating across borders. The UK's Online Safety Act and Australia's age verification mandates are following suit. Businesses that fail to verify age face regulatory fines, reputational damage, and potential criminal liability.
Verifa's age verification gives you reliable, privacy-respecting identity checks that meet these requirements without driving away legitimate users. Document-based extraction delivers high-confidence results while configurable data retention ensures you collect only what you need — and keep it only as long as necessary.
Features
- Extract date of birth from government-issued IDs with high-accuracy OCR
- Calculate age against configurable minimum thresholds automatically
- Support for passports, driver's licenses, and national IDs across 200+ countries
- Real-time processing — results returned in seconds, not minutes
- Set different minimum ages per use case: 13 (COPPA), 18 (general), 21 (alcohol/cannabis), or any custom value
- Jurisdiction-aware — apply different thresholds for different regions automatically
- Automatic pass/fail decisions based on your configured rules
- Minimal data collection — only extract what's needed for the age check
- Configurable data retention periods to match your compliance requirements
- Automatic PII purging on your schedule with full audit trails
- Field-level AES-256-GCM encryption for all stored personal data
- Option to return only pass/fail without storing any PII on Verifa's servers
- Ensure a real person is presenting the document during verification
- Video-based liveness detection prevents spoofing with photos, printouts, or screens
- Prevents minors from using a parent's or older sibling's ID
- Estimates an approximate age from the user's selfie as a secondary fraud signal
- Flags large mismatches between estimated age and the date of birth extracted from the document
- Catches stolen or borrowed IDs that pass document checks but don't match the person presenting
- Not ACCS-certified — used alongside, not in place of, document date of birth. Not a substitute for UK Online Safety Act highly-effective age assurance.
- Detect tampered, altered, or forged identity documents
- Duplicate detection prevents the same ID from being reused across accounts
- Device fingerprinting and behavioral signals flag suspicious verification patterns
- Blocklist management for known bad actors and flagged documents
Use Cases
Alcohol & Tobacco Delivery
Age-Restricted Content Platforms
Financial Services (Minor Account Restrictions)
Social Media Platforms (COPPA Compliance)
Regulatory Compliance
Age verification requirements vary by jurisdiction and industry. Verifa helps you stay compliant with the regulations that apply to your business.
- COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) — Requires verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13. The FTC actively enforces violations with significant penalties.
- State Age Verification Laws — Louisiana, Virginia, Utah, Texas, Montana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and a growing number of states now require age verification for access to age-restricted content. Requirements vary by state, with penalties ranging from civil liability to criminal charges.
- GDPR Age of Consent — The EU's General Data Protection Regulation sets the digital age of consent at 16, with member states able to lower it to 13. Platforms must verify age before processing minors' data.
- UK Online Safety Act — Requires platforms to prevent children from accessing harmful content, with Ofcom empowered to enforce age verification measures.
- Industry-Specific Regulations — Online gambling, alcohol delivery, cannabis, and tobacco e-commerce each carry their own age verification mandates at the federal and state level.
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