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How do you comply with a patchwork of US age assurance laws without turning your platform into a target for cybercriminals? 💡

As US courts and lawmakers move age checks from policy debate into enforcement, platforms face an operational trap: satisfying a fragmented web of state mandates without exposing millions of users to identity theft.

Identity architecture operates on one of two blueprints: verify and retain, or verify and discard. Storing persistent biometrics creates a permanent target for cybercriminals, whereas true zero-knowledge systems allow platforms to comply with strict regulations without assuming the liability associated with raw PII.

At Trust Stamp, we deliver zero-knowledge age assurance built for total data minimization. 🔐

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https://www.biometricupdate.com/202608/us-age-assurance-enters-implementation-phase-as-courts-lawmakers-refine-rules

US age assurance enters implementation phase as courts, lawmakers refine rules | Biometric Update US age assurance enters implementation as courts and lawmakers refine rules, p**n sites geoblock instead of verifying age, and NetChoice keeps fighting social media laws.

We are proud to announce a major expansion of our strategic partnership with ID Dataweb™.🤝

Advancing three years of proven success alongside one of the three largest life insurance providers in the United States, ID Dataweb will expand its use of our biometric tokenization and identity fraud mitigation capabilities across its growing enterprise customer base.

Andrew Gowasack, President of Trust Stamp, commented:

“Our long-standing work with ID Dataweb and a leading U.S. life insurance provider has demonstrated the technical and operational value of our technology in a demanding enterprise environment. Expanding our relationship with ID Dataweb represents an important next step in our commercial growth strategy and creates an opportunity to bring our IT2 technology to a broader range of enterprise customers.”

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We’re pleased to announce that our AAMVA Driver’s License Data Verification (DLDV) solution is available through Jack Henry's digital banking platform to combat sophisticated identity fraud. 🚀

Leveraging the Banno Digital Toolkit, we’ve embedded AAMVA DLDV into the digital experiences offered by community and regional financial institutions. This integration contributes to Jack Henry's growing ecosystem of over 1,000 fintechs, providing more than 7,200 financial institutions with relevant financial products and services for their accountholders.

Andrew Gowasack, President of Trust Stamp, commented:

“We are exceptionally proud to collaborate with Jack Henry and bring our un-fakeable data verification capabilities into their digital banking ecosystem. Utilizing the Banno Digital Toolkit allowed our team to seamlessly embed this high-assurance protection directly into native banking experiences.”

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https://investors.truststamp.ai/press-releases?docid=2eadb457143956a649925429c8cc60798732c4f9

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How do you scale digital proof of age across retail and self-service lanes without turning consumer PII into a target database? 🪪

As the UK clarifies policy for accepting certified digital IDs for alcohol sales, new guidance mandates two strict requirements: enforcing data minimization through simple binary age checks ("over 18") and proving the credential actually belongs to the person presenting it- preventing someone from simply handing their phone to an underage friend.

The debate comes down to a clear line: does a technology verify and discard, or verify and retain? Compliant age assurance isn't about storing "less data," it requires leaving no persistent biometric footprint whatsoever.

At Trust Stamp, we deliver privacy-first age assurance engineered for zero-PII retention:

👤 Biometric-Bound Credentials: Cryptographically link a person to their credentials, assets and accounts - trust the human, not the device.

🤳 Facial Age Estimation: Privacy-first age estimation from a selfie, with optional document-backed age verification for higher-assurance use cases.

🔏 Irreversible Tokenization (IT²): Converts verification data into anonymized, cryptographic tokens.

Modernizing age checks doesn't require biometric harvesting; it means eliminating static targets entirely through a zero-knowledge architecture.

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https://www.biometricupdate.com/202609/policy-intention-is-becoming-much-clearer-on-digital-id-for-uk-alcohol-sales

‘Policy intention is becoming much clearer’ on digital ID for UK alcohol sales | Biometric Update New guidance clarifies how certified digital IDs can be used for alcohol sales, while Europe continues to move ahead on digital age verification.

Sovereignty isn’t just about where your data lives - it’s about having custom foundation models tailored to your data, workflows, and industry, deployed in environments you completely control. 🏛️

As organizations adopt generative models and agentic workflows, relying on third-party cloud models exposes critical IP, risks model poisoning, and creates prompt injection vulnerabilities. True Sovereign AI requires a privacy-first AI infrastructure where your essential capabilities remain under local ownership.

At Trust Stamp, our Sovereign AI offerings provide custom, production-ready AI models built for enterprises protecting proprietary IP and governments running mission-critical workloads under domestic law. 🌐

Own your models. Protect your IP. Control your infrastructure.

Learn more 👇

https://truststamp.ai/sovereign-ai.html

How do you enforce online age limits at scale without turning citizens' sensitive IDs into central honeypots? 🤔

As New Zealand becomes the latest nation to push for mandatory social media age checks, governments are forcing platforms into a false choice: compromise user privacy or risk regulatory non-compliance.

The debate comes down to a fundamental architectural line: does your technology verify and discard, or verify and retain? Regulators and privacy advocates are converging on the same reality: compliant age assurance isn't about storing "less data"; it requires leaving no persistent biometric footprint whatsoever.

True protection shouldn't require trading away user privacy or hoarding raw identity files. 🔒

At Trust Stamp, we deliver privacy-first age assurance designed for zero-PII retention.

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https://www.biometricupdate.com/202608/new-zealand-joins-global-push-for-mandatory-social-media-age-checks

New Zealand joins global push for mandatory social media age checks | Biometric Update Platforms could use facial age estimation, digital IDs and official credentials as governments increasingly converge on mandatory age assurance.

Day 1 at Stablecon in Washington, D.C 🚀

From deep dives into regulatory policy to building the infrastructure for the next era of digital dollars, one theme is clear: as adoption scales, so does the need for uncompromising security. We are thrilled to be on the ground connecting with innovators across fintech, payments, and policy to tackle these exact challenges.

As the stablecoin market grows, addressing vulnerabilities in traditional digital asset storage, such as lost seed phrases and account takeovers, has never been more critical. 🪙

That’s why we’re excited to be here discussing our Wallet of Wallets (WoW). By leveraging tokenized facial biometrics and zero-knowledge proofs, we’re removing the need for passwords and centralized keys entirely. 🔒

Learn more about how our biometrically secured Wallet of Wallets is changing the game 👇

https://truststamp.ai/solutions/products/wallet-of-wallets.html

We have today announced that we are accelerating onboarding and waiving setup fees for financial institutions moving to our American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) Driver’s License Data Verification (DLDV) service following the revelation that photographs of more than 153 million driver's licenses from the United States and Canada, along with roughly 10 million identification cards and 3 million passports and travel documents have been leaked from a leading ID scanning company. 🔒

Gareth Genner, CEO of Trust Stamp, commented:

"Trust Stamp has always been committed to providing Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS) and our AAMVA DLDV service provides accessible, government-backed identity trust across the physical and digital worlds without compromising end-user security by storing images of their identity documents. As soon as the leak was announced we started working on processes to defend our clients against malevolent use of the data and we can quickly implement measures to protect financial institutions from the fraud risk and the potential legal liability from continued use of flawed legacy systems."

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https://investors.truststamp.ai/press-releases?docid=331046f1bfe289f5e7f4e74d6e768fcd8eeafb88

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How do you comply with mandatory age assurance laws without turning millions of user faces into target data? 🌏

As Brazil's ECA Digital faces constitutional scrutiny, platforms are caught in a false dilemma: verify users' ages or protect users' privacy.

The legal fight is really about which side of that line a given technology sits on: does it verify and discard, or verify and retain? Regulators worldwide are converging on the same distinction: the compliant path isn't 'less biometrics,' it's 'no persistent biometric footprint.

Verification shouldn't mean trading away data privacy or hoarding raw identity data.

At Trust Stamp, we deliver privacy-first age assurance designed for zero-PII retention:

1️⃣ Facial Age Estimation

2️⃣ Biometric-Bound Credentials

3️⃣ Irreversible Tokenization (IT²)

Protecting minors online doesn't require biometric harvesting; it means eliminating central target data entirely through a zero-knowledge architecture. 🔐

Read the full article 👇

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202608/brazil-age-assurance-challenge-overlooks-privacy-preserving-options

Brazil age assurance challenge overlooks privacy-preserving options | Biometric Update Constitutional arguments against biometric age checks overlook FAE, reusable credentials and other privacy-preserving approaches already entering the market.

This week, Cristian Gherhes, our Managing Director of Digital Assets/Stablecoins, attended the Edinburgh Decentralised Finance Summit 2026.💰

Key insights:

⚠️ “Who is going to make me whole when, not if, things go wrong?” A key issue deterring TradFi from engaging with digital assets is the lack of regulation and certainty around liability and accountability. It boils down to trust.

🔑 Tokenized asset volumes, on the other hand, are on the rise alongside stablecoins, indicating a growing appetite for digital assets from the public.

⛓️ Blockchain and tokenization address the critical problems of liquidity and ability to transact at all times: “This is like cash, but it settles on a Sunday.”

‼️ Infrastructure attacks, such as seed phrase compromise, remain the biggest security challenge.

🤝 The consensus in the room was that DeFi requires better governance and security in order to enjoy wider adoption, both by TradFi and the wider public.

At Trust Stamp, we are creating the identity infrastructure for digital assets to build trust in the ecosystem. Our unique biometrics technology embedded in the Wallet of Wallets (WoW) is making the digital assets world more secure and accessible to traditional finance and the public.

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