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Porn company starts new age checks after £1m fine

Porn company starts new age checks after £1m fine

2025-12-11 Ian Fleming
The media regulator Ofcom said AVS Group Ltd had started age checks on some of i...
Ondato announces new Mobile SDK V3

Ondato announces new Mobile SDK V3

2025-12-11 Per Henrikson
New Ondato Mobile SDK V3 promises faster, smarter, and fully customizable user a...
After Bermuda Expansion, CMC Markets Sets Up Office in Warsaw and signed Sumsub

After Bermuda Expansion, CMC Markets Sets Up Office in Warsaw and signed Sumsub

2025-12-10 Per Henrikson
Under the Bermuda licence, the broker partnered with Sumsub, a verification plat...
Veriff Doubles Revenue at a Scale of 100M USD and reaches profitability

Veriff Doubles Revenue at a Scale of 100M USD and reaches profitability

2025-12-10 Per Henrikson
Veriff, the global AI-native identity company powering trust infrastructure onli...
Signicat Partners With Markaaz, Expanding Global Business Identity Data for BEV and AML Orchestration

Signicat Partners With Markaaz, Expanding Global Business Identity Data for BEV and AML Orchestration

2025-12-10 Ian Fleming
This integration grants Signicat access to Markaaz's extensive dataset, which in...
Players
Ondato announces new Mobile SDK V3

Ondato announces new Mobile SDK V3

2025-12-11 Per Henrikson
New Ondato Mobile SDK V3 promises faster, smarter, and fully customizable user and customer experience.
After Bermuda Expansion, CMC Markets Sets Up Office in Warsaw and signed Sumsub

After Bermuda Expansion, CMC Markets Sets Up Office in Warsaw and signed Sumsub

Under the Bermuda licence, the broker partnered with Sumsub, a verification platform, and FYNXT, a modular multi-asset platform, to support client onboarding.
Veriff Doubles Revenue at a Scale of 100M USD and reaches profitability

Veriff Doubles Revenue at a Scale of 100M USD and reaches profitability

Veriff, the global AI-native identity company powering trust infrastructure online, reports over 30x year-over-year growth in authentication volumes. Growth is booming across every service online, driven by rising demand for verification across the entire customer journey from onboarding to authenticating every transaction online.

Shufti Pro signs Gamer Wager that enters into US peer-to-peer esports wagering market

Identity Platform Trulioo Joins Google’s Agent Payments Protocol

ID-Pal Announces Strategic Acquisition of KYB Specialists

Market
Porn company starts new age checks after £1m fine

Porn company starts new age checks after £1m fine

2025-12-11 Ian Fleming
The media regulator Ofcom said AVS Group Ltd had started age checks on some of its porn websites.
Signicat Partners With Markaaz, Expanding Global Business Identity Data for BEV and AML Orchestration

Signicat Partners With Markaaz, Expanding Global Business Identity Data for BEV and AML Orchestration

This integration grants Signicat access to Markaaz's extensive dataset, which includes over 542 million global business records, verified entity profiles, Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) information, and firmographic data across more than 200 jurisdictions.
1Kosmos Partners with Reality Defender for Deepfake Fraud

1Kosmos Partners with Reality Defender for Deepfake Fraud

Multimodal deepfake detection extends existing signals inside 1Kosmos identity verification platform.

FTC Announces Workshop on Age Verification Technologies

New Zealand implements MyMahi’s digital ID for age-gating

TSA Introduces $45 Fee for Travelers Without REAL ID in New Compliance Push

Technology
New image signature can survive cropping, stop deepfakes from hijacking trust

New image signature can survive cropping, stop deepfakes from hijacking trust

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.
Moca Network launches gamified digital identity system MocaProof - BlockchainGamerBiz

Moca Network launches gamified digital identity system MocaProof - BlockchainGamerBiz

Moca Network has announced the beta version of its gamified ID network MocaProof, which will launch on Moca Chain mainnet in 2026.
Deepfake detection startup imper.ai launches with $28M in funding

Deepfake detection startup imper.ai launches with $28M in funding

imper.ai provides real-time impersonation risk monitoring and deepfake detection.

10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification

YouTube deepfake detection tool could see Google using creators' faces to train AI bots

Namirial among Europe’s first to secure certification for remote ID proofing under new eIDAS 2 rules

Legal
Missouri Becomes 25th US State to Enact Age Verification Law

Missouri Becomes 25th US State to Enact Age Verification Law

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 deactivating users under 16 ahead of Australia’s social media ban

Meta deactivating users under 16 ahead of Australia’s social media ban

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.
UK formalizes regime of certification and governance is now in place for digital identity services

UK formalizes regime of certification and governance is now in place for digital identity services

The use of “trusted” digital ID software to verify your identity online in the UK has taken on a statutory footing as of 1 December.

India plans to verify and record every smartphone in circulation

A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping US Congress

Georgia JoinsMore U.S. States In Implementing Digital Travel With Apple Wallet’s Digital ID