







See the most egregious cases of identity verification incidents in 2025, with expert commentary and tools to stay ahead of and prevent similar threats.
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we̵…

Top AI Security Incidents of 2025 Revealed | Adversa AI
Discover how AI systems are being hacked in the wild — from prompt injection to agent abuse — with real breaches, lessons, and defenses in Adversa AI’s 2025 report.

‘Age Verification’ could force trans people to out themselves to use the internet
Automated online ID checking systems add new potential dangers to having a mismatching ID.

Exposed Persona Frontend Reveals Extensive Biometric Surveillance Stack Behind Age Verification - ID Tech
Security researchers investigating Discord’s age-verification implementation have discovered a publicly exposed frontend belonging to Persona Identities, Inc., revealing that the identity-verification vendor’s platform performs far more extensive checks than users […]

Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026?
Here are some of the best techniques for keeping email addresses hidden from spammers—along with the statistics on how likely they are to be broken.
Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026?
Here are some of the best techniques for keeping email addresses hidden from spammers—along with the statistics on how likely they are to be broken.
Laws of Identity
When digital identity ceases to be a pain in the ass, we can thank Kim Cameron and his Seven Laws of Identity, which he wrote in 2004, formally published in early 2005, and gently explained and put…
Hackers uncover the most alarming frontend leak in Discord’s age verification data
Exposed age verification code tied to Discord's identity vendor has intensified debate over facial scans, ID uploads, and user trust.

Security researchers claim Persona, the provider behind Discord's UK age verification 'experiment', performs '269 individual verification checks' on user data, including those for terrorism and espionage
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Building the world's trusted identity platform • Yoti
Our comprehensive suite of customer verification tools make it easy for businesses to be compliant and safe for people to prove who they are.

The Year States Chose Surveillance Over Safety: 2025 in Review
2025 was the year age verification went from a fringe policy experiment to a sweeping reality across the United States. Half of the U.S. now mandates age verification for accessing adult content or

Digital identification: The hidden and visible implications
Countries are rolling out digital identification schemes, but citizens are protesting about loss of privacy and misuse of data. They may have a point.

Major Identity Verification Firm AU10TIX Exposes User Data in Year-Long Security Lapse
In a significant security breach, AU10TIX, an Israeli firm known for verifying identities for...

Global: Risk Profiling Systems Used to Identify Potential Offenders Breach International Law and Must Be Banned – New Report
Widespread risk profiling by law enforcement, social security and migration is incompatible with international human rights law and must be banned.

Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to
In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification
