Shipping a compliant product usually means the product team builds, the legal team reviews, the build gets refactored, and you do it all again for the next market. That changes today: We have launched Neimo MCP, making our real-time regulatory intelligence platform available directly inside the AI tools that developers already use. As GamesBeat covered today, Neimo collapses the compliance workflow. A producer planning a multi-market launch can now have a Neimo-equipped agent produce a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction compliance brief directly from their codebase. The team gets the right answer the first time, and counsel gets a polished work product to sign off on. Studios that couldn't afford global compliance can ship faster, with greater confidence. Studios that could afford it can ship faster and more efficiently. Check out the GamesBeat exclusive: https://hubs.li/Q04h8Hwq0 Try the limited free trial: https://hubs.li/Q04h8JZ50 #DigitalTrust #PlatformGovernance #OnlineSafety #AgeAssurance
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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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- 2023
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Welcome Matthew Tenenbaum to k-ID! Matthew's joining as our new 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 - 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 & 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝘀, a key member of the product team as Age Keys grow to become the standard in portable, privacy-safe age verification. The k-ID team has been growing quickly so over the next few weeks we'll be welcoming several other team members - be sure to congratulate them and say hi!
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This report is possibly the most authoritative independent study on children's digital regulation. It is worth your time to read it. The Digital Futures for Children report at LSE reviewed 70 platforms across social media, gaming, AI and streaming. Three years of regulatory change. 108 safety measures tracked. The verdict? Regulation is working, but not fast enough. A few things stood out to us 👇 ✅ Age assurance is now the single largest category of default change across all 70 platforms. The question is no longer whether to implement it. It's whether it's done to a standard that actually protects children. ✅ Fragmentation is the core problem. 12 different age assurance mechanisms in use across platforms, largely unaudited, with 11 still relying on self-declaration. ✅ Enforcement is live. EC actions against TikTok and Meta. Ofcom's first OSA fines. The ICO's £14.47m Reddit fine. A US jury finding Meta and Google negligent. 2026 is the year the bill arrives. We're proud that the report cites k-ID directly as the first company in the world to achieve ISO/IEC 27566-1 certification. That standard is now the benchmark the report recommends regulators enforce against. Age and child safety are infrastructure problems, not feature decisions. This report makes that case better than we ever could. Full report linked below. Highly recommended reading for anyone in product, legal, trust and safety, or platform strategy. #ChildSafety #AgeAssurance #OnlineSafety #DigitalRegulation #OSA #DSA #TrustAndSafety #PrivacyByDesign
Out today 📖 the report for phase II of my research project on the impact of regulation on children's digital lives for the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC). As we debate new interventions, this research seeks to examine the evidence on how AADC, the OSA, and OSA have shaped the digital environment for children, and what progress has been made. 📱 The research considered evidence of change on 70 platforms, including social media, gaming, AI, video streaming and messaging. 📜 The changes were categorised as to whether they were (1) proactive 'by default' protections (2) end-user tools that require user action (3) information provision (4) Support mechanisms. 🔭 The research also considered existing evidence of the effectiveness of the changes made and research on persisting risks for children on the platforms. 🎂 The research also recorded and analysed whether age assurance was used on the platforms and what type of measures were used. 👮♂️ Actions by regulators, such as the ICO, Ofcom, and the European Commission, are also analysed. ✅ Published risk assessments and independent audit reports under the DSA are also analysed for evidence of change and how effective the mechanisms are as a transparency tool. ❓ What does the report find? ➡️ There is growing evidence of change across a broad range of platforms, including 'by default' protections, but on some major platforms, the momentum has moved towards introducing end-user parental controls - a shift away from the trend towards 'by default' observed in phase I. The research also finds that a majority of platforms in scope had at least one form of age assurance in place, with facial age estimation the most popular, but raises questions about privacy, standards & effectiveness of age assurance generally. ➡️ Research conducted by NGOs and academics reveals that there are significant concerns about the effectiveness of some measures & many risks are still persisting. We urgently need a transparent and comprehensive approach to independent testing and certification. There is also little evidence of change demonstrated in the transparency process under the DSA. ➡️ There is some evidence of change driven by the actions of regulators, but the research highlights concerns about the pace of the DSA's implementation and whether the children's code under the OSA has been ambitious enough. The report notes the strong indications that enforcement is becoming strategic and has the potential for systemic impact in 2026. ➡️ Plus more! ⏫ The report also contains recommendations for governments, policymakers, regulators, platforms, NGOs and the research community and the case for building on the strong potential our current regulations have. Many thanks to Professor Sonia Livingstone, Dr Mariya Stoilova, Dr Kim Sylwander, PhD Professor Ellen Helsper, the team at DFC, Leanda Barrington-Leach & Collette Collins Walsh at 5Rights, for expert input & support. Link in comments below
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Three rounds of outside counsel. Six-figure invoices. Months of refactor cycles. Per release. For most of the last decade, that's been the cost of shipping a game compliant across multiple jurisdictions. That's about to change. On May 19 at GamesBeat in LA, k-ID Head of Product Mike Mongeau goes on stage with demos of new agent workflows that compress months of compliance work into hours. Live demos at the talk. The rest, we'll show on May 19. #GamesBeat #GameDev #CompliancebyDesign #AIWorkflows
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Shipping a game across 200+ jurisdictions used to mean months of legal review and a six-figure compliance bill. On 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟵, that math gets rewritten — live, on the GamesBeat stage in Los Angeles. 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲! Mike Mongeau, Head of Product at k-ID, takes the stage with live demos of new AI agent workflows that compress months of compliance work into hours. The talk: 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝘾𝙤𝙙𝙚: 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟭 Real demos. Real scenarios. Tools you can put to work the next day. GamesBeat Summit · Los Angeles · May 19 · Main Stage If you're at GB, come find us. If not, watch this space for the recap. #GamesBeat #GameDev #CompliancebyDesign
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Three different consents are buried in a single moment. A child speaks a question to an AI agent. That's one decision. The voice being retained so the system can build a profile over time — that's a second. The voice being used to train the next model — that's a third. Each one has its own jurisdictional default. Each one is governed by its own law. Most AI products today collapse all three into a single Terms of Service and call it consent. Today k-ID and Inworld AI are partnering to handle them properly — and to do the same for every other consent decision a youth product has to make, country by country. Inworld powers voice and character behind some of the most ambitious AI experiences in market. k-ID provides the harness underneath: an age gate per jurisdiction, verifiable parental consent that stands up to regulators, the right defaults on every decision, live updates the moment a parent changes their mind. One integration path. Every market. Every age band. Parents in the loop in real time. Huge respect to Kylan Gibbs and the Inworld team for committing to build this right from day one. CEO Kieran Donovan goes deeper in Buildable 01 — the first in a new k-ID series on making AI buildable for digital youth: https://lnkd.in/gw-neEqx #ResponsibleAI #DigitalYouth #AISafety
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Congratulations to Crystal Wong for the well deserved recognition by GamesBeat in BOSS Mode: Women Driving the Future is a series spotlighting women shaping the future of games, entertainment, and tech!
Safety, privacy, and trust are no longer compliance checkboxes in gaming and digital entertainment. They are becoming core product decisions. In this sponsored BOSS Mode conversation, Crystal Wong of k-ID shares how her work sits at the intersection of regulation, product design, and game development, helping studios build age-appropriate experiences without sacrificing usability or scale. “The decisions made before scale, before revenue targets, competing priorities, and external scrutiny, become the organisation’s DNA,” Wong said. “The culture we built in those early months at k-ID is why, when truly difficult decisions arise today, we still tend to make the right ones.” Wong reflects on her path from legal practice in data privacy to working on one of the industry’s most complex challenges: turning fragmented global regulation into operational systems that developers can actually build with. She also breaks down how k-ID approaches child safety as a design principle, not a constraint, and why better questions, not just better tools, are shaping the future of trust online. Read the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/du2aXctA
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🥇 k-ID is now the first company in the world to achieve the new ISO/IEC 27566 certification. 🗺️ What does it mean? ISO 27566 is a new global standard focused on how organizations design and operate age assurance systems to handle children’s data and create safer, age-appropriate digital experiences. In short: raising the bar for how the internet should work for young audiences. This isn’t just a badge for us, it’s validation. Building a safer digital ecosystem for kids and teens isn’t a feature at k-ID. It’s our mission. Massive credit to the team who made this happen, and to the Age Check Certification Scheme partners and customers pushing the industry forward with us. Let’s Fearlessly Go! #AgeAssurance #OnlineSafety #ChildSafety #DigitalTrust #TrustAndSafety
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Are your systems ready for the 2026 regulatory reality? Next week the k-ID team is heading to the Global Age Assurance Standards Summit 2026. As new laws are being written monthly and regulators globally move to active enforcement, age assurance has become an infrastructure problem, not just a feature decision. We will be on the ground discussing how digital platforms can use multi-method orchestration to scale safely and build age-appropriate experiences. Come and find us at the summit, or drop us a message if you would like to connect. #DigitalCompliance #AgeVerification #PrivacyTech
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The k-ID team is looking forward to the Global Age Assurance Standards Summit next week, and we will be supporting the OpenAge Initiative and their session on the 15th. Get in touch if you'd like to meet!
We are proud to announce that the OpenAge Initiative will be speaking at the Global Age Assurance Standards Summit 2026 (by Age Check Certification Scheme ) - this Wednesday, 15 April. Julian Corbett, Head of the OpenAge Initiative, will be taking the stage to discuss how we move From Fragmentation to Foundation. Age verification often requires users to prove their age over and over again using different methods on different services. It doesn't have to be this way. The challenge is no longer whether age assurance is necessary online, but whether the systems being built can work at scale without compromising fundamental rights. In this session, Julian will explore how we can enable verified outcomes to be reused safely and privately, without creating surveillance infrastructure. Join us at 16:00 to learn how OpenAge is making age assurance open, private, and globally interoperable. 📅 April 14–16, 2026 📍 Manchester, UK https://lnkd.in/eHqRJzdt
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