A checkbox does not stop a minor, and a stored date of birth is one more thing to protect. JERIX reads the age from a passport or an Israeli ID card and gives your platform a yes or no against the age you set. The images and biometrics are deleted right after the check.
Four places Israeli platforms are asked who is really behind the account.
A bill tabled in the Knesset would require social networks to verify a user's age before an account is opened, and would bar keeping the age information after the check. It is a bill, not a law, and its wording may change.
With JERIX. JERIX answers the one question the bill asks: is this person over the age you set. The answer is yes or no, and the date of birth never reaches your platform.
A checkbox age gate is passed by any twelve-year-old. Platforms with paid loot boxes and real-money features are asked who is actually behind the account.
With JERIX. Age is read from a government document, not guessed from a face, and the same verified player cannot come back with a second account.
An online shop or service that sells only to adults needs a check that holds up, without becoming the keeper of every customer's identity documents.
With JERIX. Run the check at sign-up or checkout. You keep a yes or no against your minimum age, not a scan of the customer's ID.
A minor borrows a parent's details, or an adult opens an account and hands it over. A form that asks for a birth year cannot tell.
With JERIX. The live selfie is matched to the face on the document, so the person holding the phone is the person whose age was read.
Running a gaming platform? See identity and age checks for gaming. For the age question everywhere else, see age verification.
Both paths answer the age question. The passport path also proves the document is genuine.
| Document | How it is checked | What you receive |
|---|---|---|
| Biometric passport | The chip is read in the app and its signature is verified to the issuing state's root, offline. The date of birth comes from data the state signed, and the selfie is matched to the face stored on the chip. | Verified, yes or no. Old enough, yes or no. |
| Israeli ID card | Photo-based: the card is photographed, the date of birth is read from it, and the selfie is matched to the card's photo. The card's chip is never read. | Verified, yes or no. Old enough, yes or no. |
A forged or altered passport fails its chip signature. How passport chip verification works.
You cannot leak a date of birth you never received.
Your platform receives no name, no ID number, no date of birth and no image. JERIX retains no images or biometrics, so there is no archive of faces or ID scans to breach. Two platforms receive different references for the same person and cannot match their users against each other.
Read more: age verification without collecting dates of birth.
One URL opened inside your existing sign-up, and two server-to-server calls. No SDK is required, so your stack is not a gating question. When the check should run inside your own app, use the React Native or Flutter SDK. You set the minimum age per flow.
What the two calls look like →Bring the flow where age matters. Twenty minutes, a real document, and a yes or no in under ten seconds in front of you.
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