Nine U.S. House Representatives Introduce Bill Requiring Facial Age Verification for Online Gambling and Prediction Markets
2026-07-16 22:09
Odaily Planet Daily News U.S. Representative Josh Gottheimer and 8 co-sponsors have introduced a bipartisan bill requiring online sports betting platforms and prediction markets to verify users' ages before login, betting, or trading. The bill is named the Facial Recognition to Protect Children Act and applies to online gambling and prediction markets.
Gottheimer's office stated that the technology will read facial structures and patterns to estimate a user's age and will not store identity or personal biometric information. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) classifies age estimation as facial analysis, not identification.
NIST has evaluated 6 age estimation algorithms, with an average error of 3.1 years on the same visa photo database. Performance varies based on factors such as image quality, age, gender, and region of birth. The full text and bill number have not yet been made public, and the enforcing agency, penalties, technical standards, and appeal mechanisms have not been clarified.
Gottheimer's office stated that the technology will read facial structures and patterns to estimate a user's age and will not store identity or personal biometric information. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) classifies age estimation as facial analysis, not identification.
NIST has evaluated 6 age estimation algorithms, with an average error of 3.1 years on the same visa photo database. Performance varies based on factors such as image quality, age, gender, and region of birth. The full text and bill number have not yet been made public, and the enforcing agency, penalties, technical standards, and appeal mechanisms have not been clarified.
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