An umbrella term used to describe the full range of practices that services deploy to gain confidence in a user’s likely age, including age verification and age estimation solutions. The word ‘assurance’ refers to the varying levels of certainty that different solutions offer in establishing an age or age range.
See also: Age Verification
Commentary:
- Account termination may sometimes trigger deletion of the user’s account data after the period allotted for appeals or reconsideration has passed.
- Certain privacy laws, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), provide users with a right to request deletion of personal information associated with them.
- In some cases, the data associated with a terminated account may be preserved, such as when the provider has received a notice to preserve account data from law enforcement or a potential civil litigant.