Gataca.io, a digital identity and age verification provider based in Spain has announced the introduction of its “advanced passkey integration,” which the company said enables users to “access age restricted services with a passcode stored in their device.”

According to the announcement, the passkey technology integration “follows Gataca’s recent focus on the entertainment sector, where government-mandated age-verification requirements are being rolled out across many EU countries and several U.S. states.”

Gataca said that with its new technology the company aims to simplify and streamline the end user’s age verification process and enable “the broad public to seamlessly access the otherwise age restricted services and content.”

“Passkey integration allows a user’s verification result, whether obtained through an ID wallet or facial age-estimation technology, to be securely saved to their device,” Gataca explained in the announcement. “Users can then at any time re-access the service instantly, using simply their device’s fingerprint or PIN.”

After the user’s age has been verified, “a device-bound passkey is generated and tied to their identity,” Gataca added.

“The passkey is securely stored on the device, accessing the age restricted service,” the statement continued. “While accessing an age restricted service from this particular device, the user simply selects “Log in with passkey” and authenticates, using nothing more but their device access biometrics or PIN.”

“At Gataca, we believe that a seamless user experience is essential to maintaining optimal conversion and retention rates for websites and services with age restricted content,”’ said Peter Medvedik, Global Director for Strategic Partnership for Gataca. “Today, we can confidently say that Gataca’s facial age-estimation technology accuracy & light-speed algorithm set a new industry standard.”

According to the company’s website, Gataca was “conceived as an academic research project at MIT in 2017 to mitigate the risks of conducting business online.” The team’s research “identified existing internet authentication frameworks as significant contributors to cybersecurity breaches and identity fraud and proposed a decentralized authentication architecture that would invert the traditional actors’ roles in identity management.”

For more information, visit Gataca.io or contact Medvedik at peter@gataca.io.