Instagram has been testing a new age verification system for months. pretend with him Keep children under 13 years away from the app and try to be more strict by checking new accounts opened in the social network. In October, testing expanded to countries like India and Brazil, and as of this Monday, the function has arrived in Spain.

It is important to stress that these new measures are activated when an attempt is made to change our age to an age greater than or equal to 18, and there is currently no reference to their full implementation for enrollment from scratch. in practice, the opening itself from an Instagram account.

DNI or… “by eye” selfie video

Since yesterday, Instagram has been implementing new verification measures in Spain on Monday, November 7th. First, identity via ID or driver’s license. The app will ask us through its API to access our device’s camera, then take a photo of our identity to verify within a maximum of two days.

The target provides the document will be stored “securely” for 30 days in the database, about to be deleted later. This authentication functionality is pretty typical in other apps, but that’s not the case with the second method Instagram offers.

Yoti’s technology estimates your age from your facial features and shares this estimate with us. Then Meta and Yoti delete the image. Technology cannot recognize your identity, only your age.

Along with Yoti, a company specializing in digital identification, Instagram is a selfie recognition. The key and curious thing here is, the system will guess your age and, accordingly, they will either continue to verify you or not. They ensure that Yoti or Meta doesn’t store the video you’ve recorded and can only recognize your age, not the person’s identity.

Third and final method to confirm age Our followers will do it together., a surprising method as it is not very precise and reliable. In this third scenario, our followers (who must be at least 18 years old according to the app) will receive a request to verify our age.