Instagram is testing a new way to verify the age of the users.
The age of mutual followers must be over 18.
Officially, to have an Instagram account users should be at least 13 years old.
Till 2019, the app wasnt asking for new users birthdates.
After the privacy and child safety experts raked over, Instagram added age-verification features.
To make the process easy, Instagram involves a third-party company Yoti.
It uses machine learning to guess the persons age.
Meta and Yoti then delete the image.
The technology cannot recognize your identity only your age.
Yotis technology is used by the UK government and German digital regulators to verify age.
It uses different facial signals to guess the age.
The second method to verify age is the Social Vouching system.
When the user selects this,Instagram asks three mutual followers of the users to confirm their age.
Those followers have three days to respond to this request.
To verify their age on Instagram, users can send pictures of ID cards also.
