2025-12-05
Per Henrikson
The partnership gives Gamer Wager know-your-customer (KYC), AML, and biometric verification tools that are especially made to satisfy the particular legal requirements of high-risk digital services and gaming environments.
Identity platform Trulioo has joined Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) initiative, which creates a common language for how artificial intelligence agents can initiate and complete transactions on behalf of users.
Identity verification provider ID-Pal has acquired NorthRow, adding KYB, beneficial-ownership screening, and continuous business monitoring to its existing KYC and AML suite.
MyMahi’s digital ID works through schools, verifying a student’s age and creating the digital ID using data in the school’s management system. If used to verify age with a social media platform, it would simply indicate whether a student is over or under 16 without sharing any personal data. Young people strongly resonate with this model.
2025-12-09
Per Henrikson
Most authentication tools fail the moment a photo is altered. Even small changes like trimming edges turn a signed image into one that fails verification. That creates trouble for newsrooms and other groups that crop images as part of normal editing.
It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various requirements to verify your age before you can create a social media account.
2025-12-06
Ian Fleming
Missouri age verification law takes effect, raising privacy concerns and driving a major spike in VPN interest across the state.
Meta has begun removing Australian users under 16 from Facebook, Instagram and Threads ahead of a national ban taking effect on 10 December. Canberra requires major platforms to block younger users or face substantial financial penalties.
