Where verification is needed
- Online alcohol and tobacco retail: confirming legal purchase age at checkout
- Online gambling platforms: age verification before account activation
- Adult content platforms: meeting age assurance obligations under the Digital Services Act
- In-venue entry: nightclubs, festivals, age-gated events via QR scan or NFC
- Online gaming and loot boxes: verifying age before restricted features
- Prescription collection at pharmacy: confirming patient identity and eligibility
What Vidos does
- Requests a selective disclosure proof containing only the age threshold assertion
- Verifies the cryptographic proof against the credential's issuer trust chain
- Supports mDoc format (ISO/IEC 18013-5) and SD-JWT-VC format credentials
- Works for online flows (QR + OID4VP) and in-person proximity flows (NFC/BLE)
- Returns a binary pass/fail result: your system never sees personal data
Benefits for your organisation
- Minimise data collected: receive only 'age >= X' to reduce GDPR exposure
- Stronger evidence of due diligence than a checkbox or document scan
- Faster customer experience: verification completes in seconds
- Cross-border: works with EUDI Wallet credentials from all EU Member States
- Easily configurable: same integration supports 16+, 18+, and 21+ thresholds
EU context
The European Commission released its EU Age Verification Blueprint in October 2025. The Digital Services Act (Article 28) requires platforms accessible to minors to implement age verification. Vidos supports the attestation formats defined in the blueprint.
Read the EU Age Verification use case manual
