Business
Articles
Feb 07, 2025
Verifying age with email address age estimation
As legislation increasingly serves to protect children online, businesses and platform operators require efficient and privacy-conscious methods to verify user ages. Email address verification is just one of these methods, leveraging email metadata to estimate a user’s age without collecting further personal information. This guide explores how email age estimation works, its reliability, regulatory compliance, and how it performs as a tool for businesses that wish to balance user experience and risk. What is email address age verification? Email address age verification is a method of age assurance used by websites and online operators to determine
Case studies
Feb 06, 2025
From 2 minutes to 10 seconds: how Diebold Nixdorf and Yoti are transforming and speeding up age verification at self-checkouts
“AI-powered age estimation technology has proved to have a hugely positive impact on the time taken at checkout and the levels of frustration felt by consumers. It also has the knock-on effect that the efficiency of the checkout improves, transaction times drop and there are fewer queues in the store. Additionally, it also frees up staff to better serve customers who need their help.” Matt Redwood Vice president, Diebold Nixdorf Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), Incorporated, automates, digitises and transforms the way people bank and shop. As a partner to the majority of the world’s top 100 financial institutions
Articles
Jan 15, 2025
Discussion paper: Where in the tech stack should age assurance sit and how should it be done?
This discussion paper discusses where in the tech stack should age assurance checks occur? Should they be on device on a software as a service (SAAS) basis, at operating system level, or at more than one level in the tech stack? Yoti’s view, weighing the factors discussed in this paper, is that the optimal placement of age assurance within the tech stack and consumer journey depends on balancing customer convenience, privacy and operational feasibility. DOWNLOAD
Case studies
Dec 11, 2024
How Yubo pioneered 100% user age estimation to drive safety and trust among Gen Z
“Our team is grateful for the opportunity to work with partners like Yoti to continually break ground in online safety innovation and provide young people with the level of safety they are entitled to online.” Sacha Lazimi Yubo co-founder and CEO Yubo is a live social discovery platform that allows Gen Z to make new friends and hang out online with people from all over the world through group livestreaming, messaging, and an intuitive swipe feature. Founded in France in 2015, Yubo has been downloaded by over 80 million users and is used across more than 140 countries.
Articles
Dec 03, 2024
How Digital IDs are streamlining everyday tasks for millions
We’ve recently just hit a huge milestone: our Digital ID apps have had 14 million global downloads. Businesses and individuals are increasingly using Digital IDs. In fact, experts have predicted that the number of digital identity verification checks will surpass 70 billion by the end of 2024. This blog explores how our Digital IDs are making people’s lives easier and more secure. But first, what is Digital ID? Instead of using a physical document, such as a passport or driving licence, a Digital ID is a way for people to prove who they are on their phone. Creating
White papers
Nov 28, 2024
Yoti Digital Identity Report 1 - What is Digital ID?
Welcome to the first report of our new series on Digital Identity. This report focuses on ‘what is digital identity’, delving into the different definitions of the term. Digital Identity is becoming an increasingly adopted, implemented and discussed. As such it is important to understand the difference between different definitions. Download our first digital identity report – What is Digital ID? – below. No personal details, ID or data is required. Our second Digital ID report – on the value of Digital ID to businesses – can be found here. Download