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# Making the Internet “age-aware”




The AVPA is the global trade body for independent providers of privacy-protecting, standards-based,age assurance technology.


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## Our objectives








Inform and educate the public, industry and media on age verification and age estimation solutions and technology.




Promote a positive image of privacy-preserving age assurance and the independent sector which delivers it.




Represent the industry to regulators and law makers for the advancement of best practice.






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## The tipping point


The Age Verification Providers Association is a not-for-profit global trade body representing over 35 organisations who provide age assurance solutions (both age verification, age estimation and age inference), proportionate to the risk of harm.
We have reached a tipping point where all but the most innocuous of websites need to know the age – not the identity – of their users to remain compliant with a tsunami of new legislation, including:

Europe’s GDPR, Digital Services Act and Video Sharing Platform laws
Age Appropriate Design Codes in the UK, California and, coming soon, the EU
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the USA
Australia and the UK’s Online Safety Acts
India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act 

The AVPA was formed in 2018 and is growing rapidly as the age and identity provider industry takes off.
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