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Event Description

The Age Verification Workshop will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders, including researchers, academics, industry representatives, consumer advocates, and government regulators, to discuss topics including:  why age verification matters, age verification and estimation tools, navigating the regulatory contours of age verification, how to deploy age verification more widely, and interplay between age verification technologies and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA Rule). 

  • Agenda

    Wednesday, January 28

    9:00 am

    Welcome
    9:05 am

    Opening Remarks

    Andrew N. Ferguson, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
    9:15 am

    Panel 1: Understanding the Landscape: Why Age Verification Matters

    Moderator:

    Peder Magee, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission

    Panelists:

    Michael Murray, Head of Regulatory Policy, United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
    Mark Smith, Senior Privacy and Data Policy Manager, Center for Information Policy and Leadership (CIPL)
    Representative Bethany Soye, South Dakota House of Representatives
    Amelia Vance, Founder and President, Public Interest Privacy Center
    10:30 am

    Morning Break
    10:45 am

    Morning Remarks

    Mark R. Meador, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
    11:00 am

    Panel 2: From Biometrics to Behavioral Signals: Age Verification Tools

    Moderator:

    Elizabeth Averill, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission

    Panelists:

    Iain Corby, Executive Director, Age Verification Providers Association
    Sarah Scheffler, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, CyLab
    Jim Siegl, Senior Fellow, Future of Privacy Forum (FPF)
    Rick Song, CEO and Co-Founder, Persona
    Denise G. Tayloe, CEO and Co-Founder, PRIVO 
    12:15 pm

    Lunch Break
    1:30 pm

    Panel 3: Navigating the Regulatory Maze of Age Verification

    Moderator:

    Manmeet Dhindsa, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission

    Panelists:

    Katherine Haas, Director, Consumer Protection Division, Utah Department of Commerce
    Jennifer Huddleston, Senior Fellow, Technology Policy, CATO Institute
    Sara Kloek, VP of Education and Youth Policy, Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
    Clare Morell, Fellow, Bioethics, Technology and Human Flourishing Program, Ethics & Public Policy Center
    2:45 pm

    Afternoon Break
    3:00 pm

    Panel 4: Deploying Responsible Age Verification at Scale

    Moderator:

    James Trilling and Diana Chang, Attorneys, Federal Trade Commission

    Panelists:

    Emily Cashman Kirstein, Child Safety Policy Manager, Google
    Antigone Davis, VP and Global Head of Safety, Meta
    Graham Dufault, General Counsel, The App Association
    Amy Lawrence, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Legal, SuperAwesome
    Nick Rossi, Director, Federal Government Affairs, Apple
    Robin Tombs, CEO and Co-Founder, Yoti
    4:30 pm

    Closing Remarks

    Christopher Mufarrige, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

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