Age Assurance in Practice: From Policy Intent to Reality
June 18, 2026
11:00 AM
— 12:00 PM ET
Virtual
Webinar: Age Assurance in Practice — From Policy Intent to Reality
Hear from an expert panel including speakers from OfCom, the ICO, Internet Matters, and more on what teams need to understand about effective age verification solutions.
Age assurance is becoming a central challenge for online service providers required to meet evolving digital regulation and online safety obligations. Global regulators are moving beyond “paper compliance” to focus on a more rigorous standard: Do your controls work in practice, how do you prove it, and what happens when they are circumvented?
Across the UK, EU, and Australia, regulators are increasing scrutiny of age assurance measures on platforms that fail to prevent real-world access by children. Approaches that are easily bypassed or inconsistently applied are receiving growing attention as expectations around “highly effective” measures continue to evolve.
Many organizations are still determining whether age assurance obligations apply to their services and what effective implementation requires in practice. In this session, Resolver brings together regulators from Ofcom, Coimisiún na Meán, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), and Internet Matters to examine emerging supervisory expectations and share lessons from Resolver’s red-teaming of age assurance implementations currently in the market.
What you’ll learn:
- Where regulatory expectations are heading across the UK and EU, including who is in scope and how supervision is becoming more active
- What regulators actually mean by “highly effective” and how declared policy intent is weighed against real-world outcomes
- Insights from Resolver’s review and red-teaming of age assurance solutions, highlighting common challenges and why effectiveness cannot be assumed after deployment
- How organizations can implement stronger age assurance verification while aligning with the latest joint regulatory guidance on privacy and safety
- How to treat age assurance as an ongoing governance process and build a roadmap that survives regulatory inquiry.
You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how regulators judge age assurance in practice and where platforms most commonly overestimate the strength of their controls. This session provides the strategic clarity needed to evaluate, deploy, and defend your platform’s approach to children’s access and safety.
If you’re a General Counsel, Compliance Lead, or Trust & Safety Leader at a platform subject to children’s safety obligations, this session is designed for you.
Register now to secure your spot.