Youverse, a privately owned company headquartered in Portugal, was founded in 2019 and operates with approximately 20 employees, focusing on IT Services and IT Consulting. The company, formerly known as Yoonik, provides a developer-first face biometrics solution designed for passwordless authentication.
On September 10, 2026, the company detailed the requirements for CEN/TS 18099 high certification, emphasizing that conformity assessments hinge on evidence independently verified by an accredited third party. Previously, on September 8, the company clarified that CEN/TS 18099 focuses on injection attacks, differentiating it from ISO/IEC 30107-3, which is the international standard for testing and reporting presentation attack detection (PAD). Earlier, on August 26, the company published guidance asserting that an age check alone does not constitute an age assurance system, stressing the importance of an appeal process for adults wrongly denied access and cautioning against the risks of a facial estimate model if users can retry until it guesses a higher age. On the same day, it introduced "The Age Assurance Guide for Social Dating and Adult Sites," defining age assurance as an umbrella term for methods establishing a person's age or age range online and opening pre-registration for its full 2026 guide. This followed an August 25 post explaining how to integrate facial age estimation into web applications, outlining image validity statuses and noting that production access control requires a validated challenge policy, liveness detection, a fallback, monitoring, and legal review.
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