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Yoti, Onfido sign up selfie biometric clients for dating, business management and fintech
Yoti has been chosen by Muslim dating and marriage app Muzz to provide identity verification with selfie biometrics. Muzz CEO…
| Jan 19, 2023 | Jail time for UK tech bosses if they fail to keep children safe onlineThe UK’s Online Safety Bill evades defeat in its third reading in Parliament after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surrenders to… |
| Jan 11, 2023 | Success of age estimation, digital ID trials in UK lead to pressure for changes to the lawThe influential British Retail Consortium (BRC) is calling for a change to the law to allow the use of age… |
| Jan 4, 2023 | Biometrics providers line up partners, customers in diverse sectors for KYC and complianceCompliance with Know Your Customer checks and other regulatory requirements remain a major driver of biometrics implementations. The latest round… |
| Jan 2, 2023 | FaceTec pulled into BIPA case; Yoti pushes for a federal judgeBiometrics developer FaceTec is the latest company to be hauled into court for allegedly violating the U.S. state of Illinois’… |
| Dec 14, 2022 | euCONSENT reports improved age verification tests, Yoti gets another partnereuCONSENT reports updated trial figures and finds that standards-setting in age verification and bringing together competing suppliers have yielded equally… |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Facebook Dating uses Yoti age estimation to keep out minorsFacebook Dating becomes the latest product from Meta to use Yoti’s facial analysis technology for age estimation to restrict the… |
| Nov 23, 2022 | Yoti and UK Post Office receive further digital ID certificationYoti and the United Kingdom Post Office have been certified for additional identity profiles under the Digital Identity & Attributes… |
| Nov 21, 2022 | Yoti to provide age verification for THG Ingenuity customersDigital ID solution provider Yoti has entered a partnership with direct-to-consumer (DTC) partner firm THG Ingenuity. As part of the… |
| Nov 14, 2022 | Student data privacy compromised in UK, at risk in USThe Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK has issued a reprimand to the Department for Education (DfE) following a… |
| Nov 9, 2022 | Partners integrate Yoti, OCR Labs, IDnow selfie biometrics for compliant checks, onboardingSterling and Yoti have partnered to work on an integrated digital identity verification workflow for hiring processes in the EMEA… |
| Nov 7, 2022 | Yoti age estimation software embedded in gambling machinesYoti’s age estimation technology is being piloted in gambling machines or 18+ gaming terminals in the UK provided by Regal… |
| Oct 17, 2022 | Instagram use of Yoti facial age verification spreads to India, BrazilInstagram’s use of tests to attempt to verify age in certain cases, including the use of biometric facial analysis provided… |
| Oct 6, 2022 | One-click KYC, digital ID solutions introduced by Yoti, SumsubYoti is introducing a new one-click digital identity verification solution in collaboration with financial KYC (know-your-customer) provider Department of Trust,… |
| Oct 3, 2022 | Yoti partners with Talent Clouds on DBS checks with digital ID, receives UK certificationYoti and the Post Office have entered a new partnership with Talent Clouds, a digital workforce management and employee vetting… |
| Sep 26, 2022 | Speechmatics, Yoti selected for Tech Nation’s Future Fifty accelerator programAI and biometrics providers Speechmatics and Yoti were among 13 companies selected to join Tech Nation’s eleventh Future Fifty accelerator… |
| Sep 13, 2022 | Online Safety Bill ‘tweaks’ suggested as Yoti’s age verification tool reaches anniversaryIt has been a year since digital identity provider Yoti launched its Report Remove tool for age verification in the… |
| Sep 9, 2022 | Biometric bank service access grows with Indonesian deal, Seamfix platform expansionNew ways to access banking services through biometrics are becoming available to many millions of people, as Bukalapak has joined… |
| Aug 24, 2022 | Liminal compares biometrics and other age verification methods, urges interoperabilitySelf-declaration for age as a means of controlling access to sensitive materials online is pretty much useless. Liminal starts here… |
| Jul 27, 2022 | Strong demand for selfie biometrics in financial services prompts Acuant partnershipDemand for selfie biometrics and related onboarding technologies continues to be strong in financial services, with Acuant inking a deal… |
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Any online voting system requires robust digital identity
This is a guest post by Tshepo Magoma, a Yoti Digital Identity Fellow. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted citizens to worry about whether…
