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TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Age verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This Battlefield startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.
But uploading your identity details and selfie to a company’s servers has long had privacy advocates spooked and fearful that this sensitive information could be monetized, lost, or stolen in a data breach. Instead, TruSources’ technology relies on a custom machine learning model baked into its apps that detects patterns from an existing dataset that the company developed to spot deepfakes and false identity cards. “A handful of countries have mandated that all apps need to know your age, and they’ve made a huge problem because they don’t want to take the IDs from all over the world and there’s all kinds of legal implications,” Krishnamurthy tells TechCrunch.
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