Long time child protection advocate, Michael Colopy, formerly Aristotle’s Senior VP of Communications, testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services on the importance of online child protection and the commercial sector’s adoption of robust online age and ID verification.
Age Verification: State of the Art, Statement of the Market
National Association of Attorneys General Conference
Aristotle CEO, John Phillips, addresses the Attorneys General on their interest in child protection through online age and identity verification.
In response to a request from the organization of the nation’s top state law enforcement officials and spiced by a CBS News’ Sixty Minutes report on real versus fake age screens, he laid out the evolution, rationale and methodology behind America’s most widely adopted solution to screening out children from age inappropriate marketing and sales online. (The robust age screen in the report was Aristotle’s Integrity system).
Alcohol, tobacco, R-rated movie trailers and other common examples enlivened Mr. Philips’ brief presentation which also included four specific verification scenarios – of special interest to the AGs, in which MySpace’s massive PR was systematically rebutted.