🚀 We've launched k-ID's 2026 State of the Age Report: The Year of Implementation. 📘 The report identifies three realities shaping digital services: 1️⃣ Age assurance feasibility is established 2️⃣ Regulation is fragmenting, but expectations are converging 3️⃣ Enforcement is immediate The question for leadership is no longer whether to act. It’s whether your infrastructure can withstand enforcement. Across markets, regulators consistently expect operators to: 🇦 Understand user age 🇧 Apply jurisdiction-specific rules 🇨 Adapt product behaviour dynamically based on the user’s age 2026 is not a year for preparation. It’s the year of implementation. Read the summary, access the full report, and watch the launch webinar here: https://hubs.li/Q043LNYv0 #StateOfTheAge #AgeAssurance #OnlineSafety #DigitalRegulation #Compliance
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k-ID powers the age aware internet for games and digital platforms. We provide the core infrastructure that allows digital platforms to determine age and apply the right experiences, protections, and legal requirements globally. Our platform handles age assurance, parental consent, and regulatory logic in a privacy preserving way across more than 200 markets, so companies can scale safely without slowing product teams or collecting unnecessary data. Recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions and a Fast Company Next Big Thing in Tech, k-ID is trusted by leading game publishers and digital platforms as governments and families demand practical, global solutions for youth online safety and privacy.
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http://www.k-id.com
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- Technology, Information and Internet
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- 11-50 employees
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- Singapore
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- 2023
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Brazil's ECA Digital: 30 days to go 🇧🇷⏰ On March 18, 2026, Brazil's comprehensive new law for protecting youth in digital environments comes into effect. Who is affected? Game studios, social media platforms, and any global digital consumer service with users in Brazil. What is changing? The law mandates robust age verification, prohibits paid loot boxes and targeted advertising for users under 18, and requires accessible parental supervision tools. Navigating these changes requires a compliance infrastructure that is both robust and user-centric. k-ID provides the tools to operationalize these requirements, helping you protect monetization while ensuring compliance. Our guide to Brazil blog breaks down what you need to know. Read more: https://hubs.li/Q043jg7M0 #Brazil #ECA #DigitalCompliance #AgeVerification #UserSafety #Monetization #LootBoxes #kid
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Register now for Wednesday's launch of k-ID State of the Age 2026: The year of implementation! 2026 marks a decisive shift in how age-related regulation affects operators of digital services, including platforms, social media and video games. Join us for an executive briefing designed to give you the operational playbook for this new landscape. Register here: https://hubs.li/Q0436zLk0 #StateOfTheAge #AgeAssurance #ExecutiveLeadership #DigitalStrategy #MarketLeadership
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Kieran was a decorated privacy lawyer. Then he faced his past in court as a survivor of childhood abuse. When the trial ended, the question hit hard: “What am I doing with my life?” He saw a way to use everything he knew to fix a broken default online: making kids lie about who they are. That’s the day k-ID really started. Mission matters when it becomes non-optional.
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Age-related regulation is no longer a future problem, it's a 2026 reality. Are your systems ready? Join our webinar launching the "State of the Age 2026," report for a practical guide to the new compliance landscape. This isn't a theoretical overview; it's a briefing designed to help you protect your business. Perfect for leaders in product, legal, trust and safety, and platform strategy. All registrants receive the presentation and recording. Secure your spot: https://hubs.ly/Q042GWKF0 #AgeVerification #PlatformStrategy #LegalTech #ComplianceAsAdvantage #Webinar2026
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Kieran Donovan walked away from one of the world’s top law firms to fix the internet’s most broken UX: the age gate. He’s now the founder of k-ID, a privacy-first identity layer that lets apps give kids safe, age-appropriate experiences without nuking growth. Based in Singapore. Backed by tier-one VCs. Built by an Avengers team from Google, Tencent, and gaming studios. What we cover: • How to set up your company on day 0 so you don’t pay 100x later • The playbook for remote teams across 7 time zones (and why Singapore is the perfect hub) • AI’s trap: why the demo is easy and the last 10% is a mountain • Culture > tool: building AI practices that don’t break your people • Age-empowered design: ditching “lie about your birthday” for good • Turning compliance into product: adapting loot boxes, social, ads, even AI chat on the fly • Why his personal story made this mission non-negotiable Full episode of Founders & Empanadas with Kieran is live now. Listen wherever you get podcasts! Link shared below 👇️
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Age-related regulation is no longer a future problem, it's a 2026 reality. Are your systems ready? Join our webinar launching the "State of the Age 2026," report for a practical guide to the new compliance landscape. This isn't a theoretical overview; it's a briefing designed to help you protect your business. Perfect for leaders in product, legal, trust and safety, and platform strategy. All registrants receive the presentation and recording. Secure your spot: https://hubs.ly/Q042GWKF0 #AgeVerification #PlatformStrategy #LegalTech #ComplianceAsAdvantage #Webinar2026
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🚨Today, k-ID's partner Discord is announcing its plans for global age assurance and teen-by-default experiences "Discord is committed to building safer experiences for teens, investing in this work proactively, and doing it in ways that respect our users’ privacy and maintaining what makes our platform so uniquely Discord." k-ID is proud to partner Discord in helping ensure age-appropriate experiences for everyone. 🔞🎂✅ Do get in touch if you'd like to learn more about how to make age appropriate design and compliance possible, but in the meantime, please read Discord's own words linked below. We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments!: 👉Read more: https://hubs.li/Q042hkgm0 #AgeVerification #DigitalCompliance #ageassurance #onlinesafety
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🚨Today, k-ID's partner Discord is announcing its plans for global age assurance and teen-by-default experiences "Discord is committed to building safer experiences for teens, investing in this work proactively, and doing it in ways that respect our users’ privacy and maintaining what makes our platform so uniquely Discord." k-ID is proud to partner Discord in helping ensure age-appropriate experiences for everyone. 🔞🎂✅ Do get in touch if you'd like to learn more about how to make age appropriate design and compliance possible, but in the meantime, please read Discord's own words linked below. We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments!: 👉Read more: https://hubs.li/Q042hkgm0 #AgeVerification #DigitalCompliance #ageassurance #onlinesafety
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The FTC’s January 2026 workshop quietly marked a shift. Age assurance is no longer a policy problem alone. It is an architecture problem. The conversation is moving from whether platforms should seek better age signals to how they can do so at scale, while respecting privacy, security, and civil liberties. 🧩 Two capabilities now matter most: Orchestration: policy-driven age flows that adapt to context, jurisdiction, and user capability Interoperability: age signals that can be reused safely, without creating friction or surveillance That is why reusable, privacy-preserving age credentials like AgeKeys, developed through the OpenAge Initiative, are emerging as core trust infrastructure rather than optional features. The next phase of age assurance will be defined by systems that establish age proportionately, support diverse users, and allow verified outcomes to be reused responsibly. That is the new architecture of digital trust. 👉 Read our full article here: https://lnkd.in/exSBXTBD #ChildrensPrivacy #AgeAssurance #COPPA #DigitalTrust #PrivacyByDesign #TrustAndSafety
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