For years, “know your customer” checks have become commonplace on the internet, often by sharing a copy of your ID and a selfie issued by the government to confirm that you are real, to gain access to a website or app, or to buy certain goods.
Nowadays, age verification laws in the US, the United Kingdom, Australia and then also give rise to an entire industry of ID control companies charged with granting you access to the “mature” web.
But uploading your identity details and selfie to the servers of a company has long made proponents of privacy and afraid that this sensitive information can be monitored, lost or stolen in a data breach.
A new startup called Trusources aims to resolve some of these privacy and security challenges by performing age verification and identity controls on the device of a person, without the sensitive information of the person ever leaving their phone. The company plans to show off its new technology at Techcrunch Disrupt 2025, which runs from 27 to 29 October in Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The founder and Chief Technology Officer of Trusources, Sanjay Krishnamurthy, who used to work at WhatsApp, worked on the core coding motor, Techcrunch says that he initially worked on his technology to prevent scam, many of which depend on the duping of non -processing victims for their sensitive information.
His company developed a deep-fake detection app and a “know your customer” (or KYC) app, which can be used to verify the liveliness of a user within a few seconds.
Krishnamurthy says that when a user verifies his identity with trusources, none of his information is uploaded to his servers such as most age and identity control companies. Instead, the technology of Trusources depends on an adapted machine learning model that is built into its apps that detects patterns from an existing data set that the company has developed to spot deepfakes and false identity cards.
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Trusources technology can be integrated with other apps and websites that must meet the age verification laws. The technology can also be integrated into business Single-Sign-on services, with which employees have access to multiple work apps with only one set of references.
The apps can also produce a QR code for use in the Real-World, such as with the evidence of someone’s age to enter a bar without having to give a physical copy of their identity documents.
Krishnamurthy said that his technology will help companies that are subject to age verification and identity controls to meet the KYC rules, while both those companies protect against the collecting of identity documents of people and also maintaining users’ privacy.
“A handful of countries has mandatory that all apps should know your age, and they have made a huge problem because they do not want to take the IDs from all over the world and there are all kinds of legal implications,” Krishnamurthy tells Techcrunch.
Trusources is still in the early days, but stands out as one of the few startups that tackles identity controls and age verification, but without jeopardizing a person’s privacy or security.
If you want to know more about Trusources – and dozens of other startups, hearing their pitches and listening to guest speakers in four different phases – you will go on disrupt, 27 to 29 October, in San Francisco.
More information about tickets and prices here.
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