Fawad Ali

After an age verification check, your selfie or ID isn’t usually processed by the website itself. It often goes to a specialist provider. After that, it all depends on the provider and how the website has set things up. Some setups give the website back only a result, such as "over 18." Others let it access your original photos. What happens to those images afterward also varies. Some may be deleted shortly after the check, while others can be stored for years. Yoti, Persona, and Veriff, three major providers, publish different information about their practices. So who actually handles your photos, and how long might they be kept?

Your AI browser can read the page you're on, and in some cases access other tabs or browsing history. But none of the AI browsers we reviewed says it keeps a full copy of your browsing activity. The information sent off your device, the data kept after your session as summaries, logs, or memories, and the privacy settings available all differ. We checked each company’s own documentation and tested Comet ourselves in September 2026 to understand these privacy-related specifics, including where the documentation is inconsistent, unclear, or leaves important questions unanswered.

You open one of your favorite websites and an age-verification screen appears: enter your date of birth, scan a government ID, or take a selfie to verify your age. Some services may ask you to verify your age through your mobile carrier or bank instead. But what’s the reason behind this?