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by DiabloD3 295 days ago
So, I'm not sure what legal regime you're pitching this for, but my reading of, for example, the UK's new tyrannical law... if merely having your identity verified by having your credit card in your hand via KYC laws, then there wouldn't have been a problem.

They want visual proof for future prosecution.

Any company that attempts to provide services to verify identification in a way that complies with government laws is a future collaborator and also a future PII leak. They will throw you under the bus for leaking PII, and the people will throw you under the bus for collaborating.

Are you sure you want to be in that position?

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The UK's data protection laws, enforced by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), require platforms to use "data protection by design". This means minimizing personal data collected for age assurance:

You are not required to save your ID under the UK's new age verification laws; instead, platforms must use age assurance methods that confirm your age without collecting or storing your personal data, such as facial estimation or digital identity wallets. The focus is on privacy-preserving tools that provide only a "yes" or "no" response to an age threshold, adhering to data protection principles and minimizing the collection of personal information.

- Changefly ID is the core technology for anonymous authentication (https://www.changefly.com/our-research). Changefly ID requires zero PII.

- Optionally, if a service requires identity / age verification, we just released Anonymous Identity & Age Verification for Changefly ID (https://www.changefly.com/blog/2025/08/anonymized-identity-a...).

- You can verify your identity for free: https://www.changefly.com/account/verify

- Developers can verify Changefly ID’s and/or age requirement checks with our open API: https://www.changefly.com/developer