The first international standard for age-assurance technology has been published – ISO/IEC 27566-1:2025. This document establishes a framework for age-assurance systems and describes their core features, including privacy and security, to enable age-based eligibility decisions.
Access permissions refers to the term that authorizes access to applications or services. Definitions of age verification, age estimation, age inference, and subsequent validation are available here.
The standard’s main initiator is Tony Allen, head of the UK Age Check Certification System (ACCS), founder of the Global Age Assurance Standards Summit, and leader of the Australian Age Assurance Technology Research (AATT). He calls the publication of ISO 27566-1:2025 (which he co-authored) “a significant breakthrough in age assurance at the global level.”
A sample of the ISO 27566-1:2025 standard is available free of charge, but access to the full version of the document requires purchase. https://www.iso.org/standard/88143.html
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