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How does a selfie become an age estimate? How accurate is the result? And could accuracy vary depending on factors such as race, skin tone, or gender? Hailun Ying, Head of Privacy and Security, Legal at Roblox, joins VeraSafe’s Kellie du Preez and Danie Strachan to explain how facial age estimation can analyze characteristics such as bone structure, skin texture, and face shape to estimate a probable age range rather than identify an individual. Listen to the full episode of Privacy in Practice for a closer look at facial age estimation, liveness checks, model accuracy, demographic bias, and the privacy considerations businesses should evaluate when using age-assurance technologies.

A service may not be intended for children, but that does not necessarily mean children are not using it. Businesses need to understand who their users actually are, what information they are collecting, and which third parties have access to that data. Simply defining the intended audience does not resolve the privacy questions that arise when the reality of the user base tells a different story. In this episode of Privacy in Practice, Hailun Ying, Head of Privacy and Security, Legal at Roblox, joins VeraSafe’s Kellie du Preez and Danie Strachan to discuss why businesses need to understand who is actually using their products when managing children’s privacy.

Where are your users located? What are the likely demographics of your user base? And how reliable is the age data you already have? These are some of the questions Hailun Ying, Head of Privacy and Security, Legal at Roblox, says businesses should consider when managing children’s privacy. In this episode of Privacy in Practice, Hailun joins VeraSafe’s Kellie du Preez and Danie Strachan to discuss three priorities for businesses: understanding their user base, making privacy-protective settings the default for young users, and treating children’s privacy as a shared responsibility across teams.

Facial age estimation can help businesses determine whether a user falls above or below an age threshold without necessarily identifying the individual. But using this technology can introduce additional considerations, including biometric privacy requirements, model accuracy and demographic bias, vendor security, data retention, and user trust. In this episode of Privacy in Practice, Hailun Ying, Head of Privacy and Security, Legal at Roblox, joins VeraSafe’s Kellie du Preez and Danie Strachan to explain how facial age estimation works and what businesses should consider when evaluating age-assurance technologies.

In this episode of Privacy in Practice, Kellie du Preez and Danie Strachan speak with Hailun Ying, Head of Privacy and Security, Legal at Roblox, to examine the global patchwork of children’s privacy laws and the practical challenges businesses face when determining whether their users are children. Hailun breaks down the global patchwork of children’s privacy laws, the practical challenges of determining a user’s age, and the new privacy risks that age-assurance technologies can create. If your organization serves young users, operates across jurisdictions, or is evaluating age-assurance tools, this conversation is for you. In this episode, we discuss: ✅ Why the traditional notice-and-consent model begins to break down when the user is a child ✅ How age thresholds vary across jurisdictions and types of processing ✅ Why agreeing to use a service is not necessarily the same as consenting to the processing of personal data ✅ How collecting information for age assurance can create a COPPA Catch-22 ✅ Why privacy by design and cross-functional collaboration are essential to children’s privacy compliance 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/dPatugmm #PrivacyInPractice #ChildrensPrivacy #COPPA #PrivacyCompliance #DataProtection

A business discovers that a user is under 13, but it has already collected their personal information without verifiable parental consent. What happens next? In this episode of Privacy in Practice, Hailun Ying, Head of Privacy and Security, Legal at Roblox, joins Kellie du Preez and Danie Strachan to discuss what businesses should consider when they discover they have collected personal information from a child under 13 and no relevant exception applies. Listen to the full episode for a practical discussion of children’s privacy, parental consent, and the challenges businesses face when they do not know the ages of their users.