Incode Technologies has introduced a new feature, the On-Device Age Estimation, which processes age verification and liveness detection directly on users' devices, ensuring that facial data remains on the device and is not transmitted elsewhere. This marks the first time Incode's proprietary models can fully operate on the device, offering a significant advancement by merging on-device age estimation with robust defenses against deepfakes and spoofing attempts.
Global Age Assurance Compliance
With over 30 age assurance laws now enacted globally, including the UK's Online Safety Act mandating rigorous age verification by 2027, companies like Incode are stepping up to bridge the gap between compliance requirements and user privacy concerns. The company's age assurance method focuses on being seamless, inclusive, and upholding privacy standards.
Facial Age Estimation Technology
This technology is rapidly becoming a legal necessity and presents a convenient option for users
When users need to verify their age online, Incode's technology allows them to do so by opening their device's camera, where the analysis takes place. This ensures the user's face does not leave the device, and only the age estimation outcome, along with tampering detection metadata, is transmitted, providing protection against methods such as fake camera feeds or video replays.
This technology is rapidly becoming a legal necessity and presents a convenient option for users without government IDs or databases to verify against. Facial age estimation is growing in popularity because it simplifies compliance without requiring users to provide extensive documentation.
Emphasis on Privacy in Age Verification
Ricardo Amper, Founder and CEO of Incode, stated, "We have always believed that privacy and fraud prevention are not a tradeoff, but part of the same problem - solved together or not at all." As age verification becomes a legal requirement worldwide, Incode aims to streamline the process to make it as effortless as possible for users.
Traditionally, the age assurance industry required biometric data to be cautiously managed and deleted post-verification. However, Incode's on-device age estimation provides a more privacy-focused alternative, eliminating the potential for external access to the user's biometric information.
Incode Technologies launches On-Device Age Estimation, an age check that runs age estimation and liveness detection models right inside the user’s device without their face being transmitted off it. It is the first time Incode’s proprietary models are available fully on device. And it is the first enterprise-ready offering to combine on-device age estimation with the industry’s pioneer deepfake and spoofing defences.
More than 30 age assurance laws are now in force worldwide. In the UK, the Online Safety Act’s “highly effective” age check requirement is being enforced, with restrictions on under-16 access to social media planned for spring 2027. Incode is working to close the gap between compliance and user trust: offering an age assurance method that is seamless, inclusive, and built for a stronger standard of privacy.
Facial age estimation technology
When a user needs to verify their age online, the check happens where the user already is: the camera opens and Incode’s models analyze the face directly on the phone, tablet, or laptop. The face is not transmitted or stored. What travels onward is the outcome - an estimation of the user’s age together with metadata used to detect tampering, such as someone swapping in a fake camera feed or replaying a recorded video instead of a live one.
In plain terms: the user proves their age. The face stays on the device. Age checks are rapidly becoming a legal requirement rather than a product choice. Facial age estimation technology has emerged as one of the most accessible ways to meet that requirement - it needs no government ID and no database lookup, which makes it a practical option for many users of various age groups, including those who have no documents to show.
Age verification requirement
“We have always believed that privacy and fraud prevention are not a tradeoff, but part of the same problem - solved together or not at all,” said Ricardo Amper, Founder and CEO of Incode. “Age checks are becoming law around the world. Our job is to do what we can so that proving your age asks as little of the user as possible.”
The age assurance industry’s standard for facial age estimation has been a privacy policy stating that biometric data will be handled with care and deleted after the check happens. On-device age estimation is designed to give users a more privacy-preserving option at the moment they face an age verification requirement. Because the face is analyzed on the user’s own device, there is no technical way for Incode or any client platform to access a biometric or face image.
