Age verification, verifiable credentials, and the privacy tension rising from the debate
I left a job in March 2025 after years of engineering and researching privacy and identity at the forefront of the KYC industry, more specifically with biometrics and liveness identification. KYC is the infrastructure built to verify who someone is before granting them access to a transaction. That same year, I was invited by the Ministry of Justice (by the secretary of Digital Rights, Dr. Lilian Cintra), to join the technical committee contributing to what would become Decree 12.880, which regu...Digital public infrastructure·identity
