At checkout, TruAge confirms you’re old enough to make a purchase without revealing your personal information. Unlike other ID scanning systems, TruAge extracts only four out of 33+ available data points from your driver’s license to verify your age: your driver’s license number, issuing state, expiration date, and date of birth. Then, TruAge encrypts those four data points and creates anonymous digital tokens that verify you are old enough to purchase an age-restricted product.

TruAge operates in two ways:

1. You can hand your physical ID to the cashier at checkout and they’ll scan the barcode on the back using the TruAge system. Because the cashier doesn’t need to manually enter your information and because TruAge privatizes and protects your data, this process is more secure than a traditional ID check.
2. Alternatively, you can use your CA mDL with TruAge to scan a unique QR code directly from your phone. When a cashier scans your QR code from your phone, they’ll only see your photo and a confirmation that you’re of legal age to complete your purchase—not your name, address, date of birth, or any other personally identifiable information.

Other ID scanning systems can expose up to 33+ pieces of personally identifiable information including your full name, address, date of birth, height, weight, eye color, and so on. These systems may save or share your information with third parties, giving you little control over how or where your information is used. TruAge only extracts four pieces of information—your driver’s license number, issuing state, expiration date, and date of birth—to verify you are of legal age for purchases and then encrypts those data points as anonymous digital tokens. That means they’re never visible to the cashier or retailer, even after checkout. TruAge does not extract any other information from your driver’s license.

Initially, TruAge will be available in convenience stores, small grocery stores, and neighborhood markets. We have plans to expand into medium and large grocery stores, liquor stores, and mass retailers, as well as bars, restaurants, and concert venues. Find a participating location near you. 

We’ve selected a handful of stores to launch TruAge for the DMV mDL pilot, so access to TruAge may be limited for a while. As we expand in the back half of 2023, you can expect to see TruAge in convenience stores, grocery stores, neighborhood markets, liquor stores, and mass retailers, as well as bars, restaurants, and concert venues.

Because we don’t capture any data elements other than your driver’s license number, issuing state, expiration date, and date of birth—and even that information is secured with the creation of your anonymous TruAge digital token.

TruAge encrypts your data points and then protects them even further by creating anonymous tokens. These anonymous tokens cannot be traced back to you without legal authorization from a court-issued subpoena. Neither retailers nor cashiers retain any of the extracted information.

Never. Because we don’t store any personal information, there’s nothing to sell.

TruAge makes identity theft extremely difficult in comparison to existing proof-of-age methods. No personal information is transmitted during a purchase so there is nothing to steal.