Teen gangs have easy access to corrosive and dangerous chemicals without any verification of identity or age and they are now using them to cause personal harm on the streets of the UK. Access to these chemicals should have affirmative age and identity checks such as those offered to online retailers by Aristotle’s Integrity. This […]
With evidence in hand that minors purchased weapons from online stores simply by using a prepaid card, California legislators have moved forward with legislation to put effective age verification in place. As purchases of prepaid cards are not restricted to adults, and are often given as birthday and other gifts, using a prepaid card […]
Age 19 = Age 16, Age 16 = Age 13, Age 13 = Age 10 on Facebook As Facebook presents its advertising reach, people have noticed some interesting “anomalies,” namely the amount of young users that Facebook represents in the younger demographics exceed those represented by the U.S. census. Why is this important? In his […]
Tuesday, while listening to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress, it occurred to me that Facebook could potentially require some level of individual verification that includes the verification of an electronically submitted government document and a geolocation process, like government data or the voter file. While there is value in submitting an electronic copy of […]
What a conference! A round of applause to the One World Identity team and CEO Travis Jarae for delivering such engaging content, including keynote speakers Scott Galloway, David Birch and Steve Wilson. These speakers – and many more – really challenged the identity community to assess the definition of online identity and how the global […]
A data breach can ruin your company’s reputation and cost you billions of dollars – just ask one of the estimated 16.7 million Americans impacted last year. According to a 2018 Identity Fraud study by Javelin Strategy & Research, more SSNs were stolen than credit card numbers in 2017. After all, you can do anything […]
Field reporting from the Adult Entertainment Conferences XBIZ LA and AVN InterNext Aristotle Integrity recently attended XBIZ 2018 in West Hollywood and AVN InterNext 2018 in Las Vegas, two of the biggest business conferences for the Adult Entertainment market. Both conferences had a diverse range of attendees, including industry professionals from adult sites, payment processors, […]
Whilst it has been common in the iGaming market that the age of the user has been verified at the first deposit of money on the site, recent activity by the U.K. Gaming Commission should cause iGaming operators to rethink their marketing and on-boarding strategy. Based upon the recent letter that the Gaming Commission, the […]
Over the last decade, all major payments processors have created fraud strategies and associated services in an effort to offer real customer value to their merchants. Independent or standalone anti-fraud vendors are less prevalent, due to a raft of strategic acquisitions and partnerships offering even broader services. Traditionally, global products that may not have entered […]
A recent financial intelligence report by Europol states that the agency could be ramping up their iGaming investigations, particularly those based on the international iGaming hub of Malta. As part of an ongoing crackdown on Italian organized crime, property and six iGaming companies on the island were seized and their licensing revoked. The companies were […]