Meta says its new age verification tech isn’t facial recognition. Can that solution manage meddling kids?

As world governments breathe down Meta's neck, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has unveiled a new layer of protection for users under the age of 18. Those youngsters will be subjected to age verification technology that will scan context clues to determine which accounts need to be placed into the Teen Account experience. For months, Meta has teased an AI-powered solution that will protect vulnerable users across all of the tech company's platforms. Now, that safeguard is here. Days after E.U. regulators concluded that Meta has not done enough to keep kids off of Facebook and Instagram, the Big Tech firm published a blog post that shares details about the forms of age verification it has installed thus far. Visit Tubefilter for more great stories.