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If you don't confirm your age within 14 days, your account won't work anymore. To keep using your account, you need to provide your correct birthday. If you're younger than 13, we'll help you and your parent set up supervision.

If you are being demanded to provide age verification, then this is usually due to either a Date of Birth being added that makes you below the age that an account be legally held. They will also offer the option to have the account supervised, if indeed it belongs to a child.

Important: Google uses this information to verify your identity, and to protect you and us from fraud and abuse. We store this data securely in your Google account. We may, with your consent, use or share this information to help you register for other services you request.

Ask us to restore your account If you own the account, you can request access to it again. Sign in to your Google Account on a browser, like Chrome. Select Start Appeal. Follow the instructions.

Data breaches "Gathering personal information for age verification does run an inherent risk because the only person who can take back control of your data is you," he added. Young people's data has already fallen into the wrong hands in an attempt to provide age verification measures.

The SOC 2 standard is an internationally recognised security standard. Yoti also holds the Age Verification Certificate of Compliance, issued by the BBFC. Yoti is certified to the publicly available specification PAS:1296 Age Checking.

A group of US senators has revealed a bipartisan bill that would require social media platforms to verify users' ages, stop anyone under 13 years of age from signing up, and set up special rules for minors over 13.