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Our Fifth Regulatory Roundtable: exploring age assurance methods

As regulators and companies consider new laws to protect children and give them age-appropriate experiences online, they are faced with the challenge of how to determine someone’s age. We explored this topic at our latest regulatory roundtable; a lively and healthy discussion, chaired by our Guardian Gavin Starks. We discussed different age assurance methods, and the progress and widespread adoption of facial age estimation. We shared key updates on our technology, how facial age estimation can be configured to work with safety buffers, and demonstrated some live use cases. The roundtable also looked at why there needs to be international

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Yoti Identity Fraud Report

We’re pleased to publish the first edition of our identity fraud report, which explores the fraud trends we’ve seen over the past 24 months. We delve into the tactics fraudsters are using and how these are evolving. We also explain why using technology and a team of verification experts together provides the best defence against fraud.   Key takeaways from the report: It’s challenging to understand the exact figures and the true scale of fraud; businesses can only report on the fraud they know about Fraud is evolving; fraudsters are exploiting different tactics including deepfakes and tampered with documents The

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ENISA report on Remote ID Proofing Good Practices

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA, is the Union’s agency dedicated to achieving a common level of cybersecurity across Europe. The Agency works together with stakeholders, through knowledge sharing, to strengthen trust in the digital economy and infrastructure.  We were very happy to contribute, alongside colleagues from other stakeholders, to ENISA’s report on Remote ID Proofing – Good practices.  The report is in response to recent developments in attacks, particularly deepfakes, causing concern about identity proofing, with the goal of increasing awareness and assisting in risk analysis practices. The report identified two areas of attacks: Biometric and injection attacks

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Understanding the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPDI) is the UK’s first piece of legislation to introduce provisions for a national digital identity framework. This will be called the Digital Verification Service (DVS). It has the ambition to revolutionise how individuals prove themselves and make admin processes easier, quicker and smoother.  This blog provides an overview of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. This is a two-part Bill, but we will focus more on the digital identity verification provisions, exploring what this means for digital identities in the UK.    What is the DPDI Bill? This long-awaited Bill formally

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Preview of the latest B Corp Impact Report

Say hello to our 2024 B Corp Impact Report

We’re delighted to reach our ninth year of being a B Corp. When Yoti was founded 10 years ago, we knew that we wanted to do business the right way. Because that’s the only way we can truly make the digital world safer for everyone. Our founders knew that in this industry, we were going to come up against some complex ethical questions. Working with identity, personal data and biometrics is a delicate matter. And that’s one of the reasons we became a B Corp – to hold us accountable to all our stakeholders including our people, clients, suppliers, the

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DSIT report on public views of digital identities

Last year, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) commissioned a public dialogue to seek views from the public on digital identities. They wanted to explore the benefits and concerns associated with digital identity services.  We take a look at some of the key findings and themes from the public dialogue, and what this means for the future of digital identities in the UK.   UK digital identity and attributes trust framework Digital identities give us a way to prove who we are, without needing to use physical documents. They can offer us greater privacy, security and convenience over

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