Policy paper

VoCO (Verification of Children Online) Phase 2 report

VoCO (Verification of Children Online) is a child online safety research project that responds to the challenge of knowing which online users are children.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Government Communications Headquarters and Home Office
• Published: 10 November 2020

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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VoCO (Verification of Children Online) Phase 2 report

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The Verification of Children Online (VoCO) project is a child safety research project that has responded to the challenge of knowing which online users are children.

The project has brought together children, industry and child safety stakeholders to consider the technical, commercial, legal and behavioural factors that would enable companies to recognise and better protect their child users.

The project has been a collaboration between DCMS, the Home Office and GCHQ.

This report captures the outputs of the second phase of the VoCO project.

Published 10 November 2020