A new startup called TruSources aims to solve some of the privacy and security challenges by performing age-verification and identity checks on a person’s device, without the person’s sensitive information ever leaving their phone. TruSources’ founder and chief technology officer, Sanjay Krishnamurthy said, his company developed a deepfake-detection app and a “know your customer” (KYC) app, which can be used to verify a user’s liveness on-device in a few seconds. Krishnamurthy says that when a user verifies their identity with TruSources, none of their information is uploaded to its servers like most age- and identity-checking companies do. 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. TruSources’ technology can be integrated with other apps and websites that have to comply with age-verification laws. The technology can also be integrated into corporate single-sign-on services, which allow employees to access multiple work apps with just one set of credentials. The apps can also produce a QR code for use in the real world, such as when proving a person’s age to enter a bar without having to give over a physical copy of their identity documents. Krishnamurthy said his technology will help companies that are subject to age-verification and identity checks to be compliant with KYC rules, while both protecting those companies from having to collect people’s government-issued identity documents and preserving users’ privacy. 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.