Age Assurance workshop
- Upcoming
- Confirmed
- Upcoming
- Confirmed
Meeting
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/569
Recent regulations restricting children's online access through age assurance requirements are driving major changes across the web, prompting a mini-workshop to continue discussions from last year's joint IAB/W3C workshop on age-based access restrictions. Attendees are encouraged to submit proposals for discussion topics such as privacy expectations, risk mapping, and the need for multi-stakeholder collaboration beyond purely technical solutions.
Submission deadline: 09 October 2026
Please submit your proposal as an issue on https://github.com/w3c/tpac2026-miniworkshops, using the corresponding issue template.
Agenda
Agenda
Location: Ground Floor - Munster Suite
Hour One:
9:00-9:05 opening remarks, set up goals and expectations
9:05-9:15: Focus on Standards (10 min)
- Ehsan Toreini, “Age Assurance on the Web: Technical Takeaways from GDC Geneva”
9:15-9:30: Accountability and Interoperability (15 min)
- Alexis Hancock, “Verifier Accountability: Missing Pieces to Harm Reduction”
- Iain Corby, “Age assurance on the open Web: interoperability, accountability and choice”
9:30-9:40 Online Safety Beyond Age Assurance (10 min)
- Beckett LeClair, “Rights-respecting age assurance”
- Rachel O'Connell, “Age Assurance and Age-Related Eligibility: Verifying a child's age and parental responsibility in one check”
9:40-9:50: Focus on Standards (10 min)
- Martin Thomson, “The case for a graduated tool suite for age assurance”
9:50-10:00: summary and setting up for Part Two (after the break)
10:00-10:30: Break (drinks and snacks) - Ground Floor, Pre-function
Hour Two:
10:30-10:45: Focus on Standards (15 min)
- Nick Doty, “Age Range Signaling for the Web"
- Marcos Cáceres, “The <agecheck> element: share only a yes or no about age”
10:45-11:00 Risks, Harms, and Analysis (15 min)
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Siti Nurliza, “Use of government-issued ID and transparency in age assurance”
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Zahra Ebadi Ansaroudi and Simone Onofri, “Where Do the Harms Move? Comparing Online, Device- and Credential-Based Age Assurance”
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Andrea Moro, “Evaluating Anonymous Credentials for Age Verification: A Methodology for Ecosystem Integration"
11:00-11:30: identifying most promising areas for next steps
- proposals most suited for advancing at W3C
- significant gaps we could address
- common threads among presentations and areas for collaboration
11:30: end of mini-workshop
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