Article: Kids' chat rooms to be made safer with new on-line age checks.

London -- London, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- - Launch of interactiveAgeCheck (iAC), the first web-based ID and age authentication scheme of its type in the UK, provides safeguard to young people and retailers against illicit internet access such as paedophilia and fraud

- iAC supported by Home Office and endorsed by charities, internet retailers and operators

CitizenCardA`, the UK's largest and fastest-growing photo ID card scheme, has today launched interactiveAgeCheckA` (iAC), an electronic age verification system that enables internet vendors and operators to check the age and identity of their users.

The first of its type in the UK, this groundbreaking scheme ...

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