"For years, "know your customer" checks have become commonplace on the internet, often by way of sharing a copy of your government-issued ID and a selfie to confirm that it's really you, to access a website or app, or to purchase certain goods. Nowadays, age verification laws taking effect across the U.S., the United Kingdom, Australia, and beyond are also giving rise to an entire industry of ID-checking companies charged with granting you access to the "adult" web."
"A new startup called TruSources aims to solve some of these privacy and security challenges by performing age verification and identity checks on a person's device, without the person's sensitive information ever leaving their phone. The company plans to show off its new technology at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, which runs October 27 through 29 at Moscone Center in San Francisco."
"TruSources' founder and chief technology officer, Sanjay Krishnamurthy, who used to work at WhatsApp working on the core encryption engine, tells TechCrunch that he worked on his technology initially to help prevent scams, many of which rely on duping unsuspecting victims into handing over their sensitive information that the scammers use to cash in. His company developed a deepfake detection app as well as a "know your customer" (or KYC) app, which can be used to verify a user's liveness on-device in a few seconds."
Know-your-customer and age-verification checks increasingly require users to upload government IDs and selfies, raising fears of monetization, loss, or theft of sensitive data. TruSources performs age verification and identity checks entirely on-device so that users' ID images and biometric data never leave their phones. The company uses a custom machine-learning model embedded in its apps and a dataset developed to spot deepfakes and falsified identities. Founder Sanjay Krishnamurthy, formerly at WhatsApp on the encryption engine, built the technology to prevent scams. TruSources will demonstrate the technology at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco.
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