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Additional principles for providers to consider
4.59Service providers should ultimately ensure that the age assurance process used is highly
effective at correctly determining whether a particular user is a child.
4.60Alongside fulfilling the criteria, the age assurance process should be easy to use and work
for all users. Failing to do so might unduly prevent adult users from accessing legal content.
4.61Service providers should therefore also consider the principles set out in Table 4.2 below
when implementing age assurance methods or processes. We provide further detail about
each principle below, including why they are important, and steps service providers can
take to have regard to them.
Table 4.2: Summary table of the principles that services providers should consider in addition to
the criteria.
| | Principles | | | Practical steps to consider principles | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Accessibility: the principle that age assurance should be easy to use and work for all users, regardless of their characteristics or whether they are members of a certain group. | Accessibility: the principle that age | | | Assess the potential impact that the chosen age | |
| | assurance should be easy to use and work | | | assurance method(s) might have on users | |
| | for all users, regardless of their | | | sharing protected characteristics. | |
| | characteristics or whether they are | | | | |
| | | | | Consider offering a variety of age assurance | |
| | members of a certain group. | | | | |
| | | | | methods. | |
| | | | | Design the user journey through the age | |
| | | | | assurance process to be accessible for a wide | |
| | | | | range of abilities. | |
| | | | | Make information about the age assurance | |
| | | | | process available to the user prior to | |
| | | | | completing the age check. | |
Accessibility: the principle that age Assess the potential impact that the chosen age
assurance should be easy to use and work assurance method(s) might have on users
for all users, regardless of their sharing protected characteristics.
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| | Principles | | | Practical steps to consider principles | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Interoperability: the ability for technological systems to communicate with each other using common and standardised formats. | Interoperability: the ability for technological | | Stay up to date with developments in interoperable age assurance methods and use these approaches to reduce the burden on the user where possible and appropriate for the service. | | |
| | systems to communicate with each other | | | | |
| | using common and standardised formats. | | | | |
Interoperability: the ability for technological Stay up to date with developments in
systems to communicate with each other interoperable age assurance methods and use
using common and standardised formats. these approaches to reduce the burden on the
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4.59 Service providers should ultimately ensure that the age assurance process used is highly effective at correctly determining whether a particular user is a child. 4.60 Alongside fulfilling the criteria, the age assurance process should be easy to use and work for all users. Failing to do so might unduly prevent adult users from accessing legal content. 4.61 Service providers should therefore also consider the principles set out in Table 4.2 below when implementing age assurance methods or processes. We provide further detail about each principle below, including why they are important, and steps service providers can take to have regard to them. Table 4.2: Summary table of the principles that services providers should consider in addition to the criteria. | | Principles | | | Practical steps to consider principles | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Accessibility: the principle that age assurance should be easy to use and work for all users, regardless of their characteristics or whether they are members of a certain group. | Accessibility: the principle that age | | | Assess the potential impact that the chosen age | | | | assurance should be easy to use and work | | | assurance method(s) might have on users | | | | for all users, regardless of their | | | sharing protected characteristics. | | | | characteristics or whether they are | | | | | | | | | | Consider offering a variety of age assurance | | | | members of a certain group. | | | | | | | | | | methods. | | | | | | | Design the user journey through the age | | | | | | | assurance process to be accessible for a wide | | | | | | | range of abilities. | | | | | | | Make information about the age assurance | | | | | | | process available to the user prior to | | | | | | | completing the age check. | | Accessibility: the principle that age Assess the potential impact that the chosen age assurance should be easy to use and work assurance method(s) might have on users for all users, regardless of their sharing protected characteristics. 19 | | Principles | | | Practical steps to consider principles | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Interoperability: the ability for technological systems to communicate with each other using common and standardised formats. | Interoperability: the ability for technological | | Stay up to date with developments in interoperable age assurance methods and use these approaches to reduce the burden on the user where possible and appropriate for the service. | | | | | systems to communicate with each other | | | | | | | using common and standardised formats. | | | | | Interoperability: the ability for technological Stay up to date with developments in systems to communicate with each other interoperable age assurance methods and use using common and standardised formats. these approaches to reduce the burden on the