Age Assurance Technology Trial

Age Assurance Technology Trial

Epic Games Kids Web Services

VENDOR CASE STUDY
  • Found in Part A: Main ReportPart G: Parental Control

Strengths

Epic’s Kids Web Services (KWS) supports a federated approach to parental consent across participating games and platforms. It was one of the few systems in the trial to demonstrate:

  • Real-time parental consent prompts triggered dynamically when a child attempts to engage with age-gated features.
  • Multiple verification methods, including email confirmation, micro-payment and integration with credentialing services like ParentGraph.
  • Feature-level configuration, allowing guardians to set permissions across different gameplay or communication functions (e.g. voice chat, messaging).
  • An API-first architecture, enabling third-party developers to reuse consent status across platforms without re-verifying the parent.

Summary of Results

KWS’s implementation demonstrated high usability, risk responsiveness and good integration with age verification signals – a strong example of embedded, event-triggered consent workflows that reduce friction without sacrificing oversight.

Privacy Policy

In addition to the structured Practice Statements, the Trial also reviewed publicly available Privacy Policies for all participating providers. This formed a key part of the Trial’s ethical due diligence and helped assess how well declared practices aligned with actual documentation and observed system behaviour.
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Practice Statement

Practice Statements are formal documents submitted by participating providers, outlining how their systems function and how they claim to meet specific expectations under international and domestic standards. They offer providers an opportunity to articulate their system’s design in their own words — similar to a ‘statement of practice’ or ‘system disclosure’ used in certification and compliance contexts.
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Interview

As part of the Trial’s commitment to transparency and accuracy, the team prepared a written summary of each vendor interview, capturing key points regarding system design, functionality and implementation claims. These summaries were shared with participants for review, allowing them to check, verify and suggest corrections where necessary.
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Test Report

Individual Vendor Test Reports were developed for each participating provider. These reports formally document the results of the functional, usability and security evaluations carried out during the Trial and are intended to support public understanding, regulatory scrutiny and future conformity assessment or certification processes.
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