The United States' Federal Trade Commission has decided to allow facial authentication through smartphones or webcams for parents granting consent for children's activities.Due to rules in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, currently websites and online services directed at children need to take the consent of the child's parent.Under the new rules, parents could confirm their identity with a new method involving facial recognition and phone or webcam photographs.This will speed up a process that currently involves mailed, faxed or electronic scans of consent forms, toll-free numbers and bank or credit card validation.The “face match to verified photo identification” (FMVPI), has been proposed by a regulatory compliance services company called Riyo.First, a parent submits a snap of a personal photo ID, such as a driver's license or passport, which is verified using computer vision and image forensics technology to ensure that it is a genuine government-issued document.Then they submit a selfie, taken with a phone camera or webcam, which the system then compares using facial recognition technology to ascertain whether the person on the photo ID is the same person as in the second photoThe system detects facial movements to ensure this photo is of a live person, rather than a photo of a photo. The image of the parent's face is then compared to the face displayed on the photo identification.Photos that do not meet the required level of quality to complete the face match are rejected. After passing these checks, both images are then reviewed by live agents who are trained to verify whether the photo on the identification card matches the photo submitted by the parent.The proposed method does not involve checking the government-issued identification against databases of such information, but, as noted above, does involve verification of the identification document to ensure its authenticity.
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