For years, “Know Your Customer” checks have been used to the internet, often by exchange of a copy of your identity and a selfie to confirm that it is really you, access to a website or app or buy some goods.
Today, the laws for verifying age in force in all the US, the United Kingdom, Australia and in addition to the moment they create an entire control industry tasked with accessing adult web access.
But the uploading of your identity details and selfie to a company has long been supporters of privacy, frightened and afraid that these sensitive information could win, lose or stole in data breach.
A new start -up called Trusources aims to solve some of these challenges for privacy and security by carrying out verification and identity checks on a person’s device, without the sensitive information of a person who ever leaves his phone. The company is part of the Battlefield Startup and plans to highlight its new technology at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, which runs on October 27 to October 29 at the Moscone West in San Francisco.
The founder and head of Truusources technology, Sanjay Krishnamurthyy, who worked on the basic encryption mechanism in Whatsapp, tells Techcrunch that he initially worked on his technology to prevent scams, many of which are based on the disappearance of unsuspecting victims in the tradition of deceitful information.
His company developed a Deepfake detection app and a “KNOW Customer” (KYC) application, which can be used to verify a user’s live device in a matter of seconds.
Krishnamurthy says that when a user verifies his or her identity, none of his information is uploaded to his servers, like most age and identity control companies. Instead, Truusources technology is based on a customized model of mechanical learning model that is baked in its applications that detect the standards from an existing data set that the company developed to detect deeply and false identity.
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Truusources technology can be integrated with other applications and sites that must comply with age verification laws. Technology can also be integrated into a single sign -in -signal services, which allow employees to access many employment applications with only one set of credentials.
Applications can also produce a QR code for real world use, such as when they prove a person’s age to enter a bar without having to give a natural copy of their identity documents.
Krishnamurthyy said his technology will help companies subject to age verification and identity controls to comply with KYC rules, while protecting these companies from having to collect the identity documents issued by the government of human beings and maintain private lives.
“A handful of countries are ordered that all applications need to know your age and have made a huge problem because they do not want to get identifiers from around the world and there are all legal consequences,” says Krishnamurty TechCrunch.
Truusources is still in its early days, but stands out as one of the few newly established businesses facing identity and age verification, but without at stakeing a person’s privacy or safety.
If you want to know more about Trussources – and dozens of other newly established businesses, listening to their stadiums and listening to speakers at four different stages – come with us on Disrupt, which takes place on October 27 to October 29 in San Francisco.
Learn more about tickets and pricing here.
