The German Commission for the Protection of Young People in the Media (Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz – KJM) has approved HooYu as a suitable age verification system.
The KJM offers providers legal certainty by reviewing concepts and systems to check that they meet the technical requirements to satisfactorily perform age verification which enables ID document validation and identification by means of an automated process involving the comparison of biometric data.
According to the Youth Media Protection State Treaty (Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag – JMStV), content harmful to minors can only be distributed in telemedia if technical measures are used to ensure that only adults can access the content.
The approved HooYu process equips adult content providers, such as online gambling operators, with a suite of UI and UX tools that guide the user (in German or other user-defined language) to provide a selfie and image of their German ID document. HooYu then performs a liveness detection process, an ID document validation by checking security features in the ID document image, and a facial biometric comparison between the face in the selfie and the face in the ID document.
Ahead of the July 2021 deadline for compliance with the State Treaty on Gambling Regulation (Glücksspiel Regulierung Staatsvertrag – GlüNeuRStv), gaming operators are now turning to age verification providers that have achieved KJM approval.
In late 2020, HooYu submitted documentation and demonstrations to the KJM, so that HooYu could be assessed according to the KJM criteria (Kriterien zur Bewertung von Konzepten für Altersverifikationssysteme – AVS Raster) as a module that verifies a player’s age and identity when they create their account to receive adult content.
David Pope, HooYu Marketing Director, commented, “As gaming operators embrace the new German regulatory regime, they are looking to age verification systems approved by the KJM. At the same time, operators want a customer sign-up process that makes it easy and convenient for the user to go through the age verification process. The HooYu digital KYC journey does just that, it solves both sides of the equation – what the regulator is looking for and that smooth sign-up experience that gaming operators want to provide to their users.”
