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Australia’s age assurance technology trial is testing a new biometric tool that performs age estimation based on hand gestures.
The French company Needemand will have its BorderAge product formally tested by the Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) for the Australian government’s trial of age assurance technologies.
Originally born out of research on a tool to test for doping in sports, BorderAge works on the principle that as we age, our body changes – and so do the ways that we move. Technically, it measures variations among people of different ages in the duration and distance of “rapid aimed limb movements toward a visible target region.”
The process can be completed with less than 30 seconds of footage from a smartphone camera.
The ACCS has previously verified Needemand’s internal testing, which has found BorderAge’s machine learning algorithms to be 99% accurate.
Jean Michel Polit, the company’s Chief Business Officer, says he expects the ACCS testing to begin in March or April.