Age Verification for the Online Safety Act — Parental Responsibility Verification & COPPA-Compliant Age Verification

TrustElevate delivers age verification for social media platforms, age verification for gaming platforms, and verified parental consent under GDPR — connected to government eID systems globally. One age verification API integration covers the UK Online Safety Act, EU DSA age assurance, GDPR, COPPA, AVMSD, and the ICO Children's Code, with AI fraud-resilient assurance that meets Ofcom age verification requirements.

Ofcom has opened 21 investigations into apps and websites for non-compliance. Fines reach £18m or 10% of global revenue. The ICO has explicitly said self-declaration and weak age gates are no longer acceptable. The time to act is now.

Who this is for

Social Media Platforms

Comply with under-16 restrictions, parental consent requirements, and age-appropriate design codes under UK OSA and EU DSA.

Gaming & Esports

Verify player age bands for PEGI/ESRB content gating, COPPA compliance, and parental supervision of in-game purchases and communications.

Edtech Platforms

Obtain verified parental consent for data processing of children under 13 (COPPA) and under 16 (GDPR) — from the verified holder of parental responsibility.

Digital Marketplaces & Fintechs

Verify identity and parental responsibility for minor accounts, junior ISAs, and family financial products under PSD2 and FCA requirements.

Youth Banking & Financial Services

Banks cannot remotely onboard under-16s without a compliant KYC pathway for minors. TrustElevate provides the world's only live Verified Parental Responsibility check — enabling Tier-1 banks to open youth accounts, junior ISAs, and family financial products remotely and compliantly under FCA, CBI, and PSD2 requirements.

Courts are now deciding who pays.

Online family safety tools — app stores and digital platforms — and fintechs issuing children's Visa and Mastercard products rely on the same flawed mechanism: an adult self-declares parenthood and vouches for a child's age, and both are accepted without verification. In March 2026, a Delaware Superior Court judge ruled that a major social media platform's insurers have no duty to defend it against thousands of child harm lawsuits — because building on unverified self-declaration of parenthood is a design choice, not an accident, and liability policies don't cover design choices. Platforms and fintechs carry that exposure themselves now. Uninsured.

What we verify

Parental responsibility verification & COPPA-compliant age verification — one integration

Full-population identity verification

We verify identity across all age groups — children, young people, and adults — connected to government eID systems in multiple countries. One integration, global reach.

AI fraud-resilient age assurance

Our verification is built to resist AI-generated fraud, synthetic identities, and deepfake attacks — the threats that make self-declaration and document upload obsolete. Accepted by regulators as meeting the standard the ICO requires.

Verified Parental Responsibility (VPR)

We verify the actual legal holder of parental responsibility — not just any adult who claims to be a parent. The world's first and only live Verified Parental Responsibility check globally.

Verifiable Parental Consent (VPC)

Full consent receipts for data processing, purchases, and platform access — from a verified responsible adult. Auditable, compliant, GDPR-ready.

Verified Power of Attorney (PoA)

Cryptographic verification that the person acting on behalf of a vulnerable adult — in financial, healthcare, or legal matters — holds the legal authority to do so. Scoped, auditable, and fully revocable.

Ofcom age verification requirements & ICO Children's Code compliance

DSA age assurance compliance, global coverage, defensible audit trail

  • UK Online Safety Act 2023
  • EU Digital Services Act
  • GDPR / UK GDPR
  • COPPA (US)
  • ICO Children's Code
  • AVMSD
  • PSD2
  • AML / KYC
  • Australian Online Safety Amendment
  • France Law 2024-449

Integration

Age verification API integration

TrustElevate integrates via API, iframe, or TrustElev8 Web SDK — a drop-in parental consent solution for apps. Connected to government eID systems globally. Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

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