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Aug 06, 2025
Yoti is now a certified Orchestration Service Provider (OSP) under UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework
Yoti is now a certified Orchestration Service Provider (OSP) under the UK’s Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (DIATF), just weeks after the UK Data Act received Royal Assent. Following a rigorous audit to ensure compliance with the UK DIATF’s strict requirements for OSPs, we have been awarded this certification by the Kantara Initiative. This milestone builds on our commitment to deliver trusted, secure, and inclusive digital identity solutions for people and businesses across the UK. Simple and inclusive access to trusted digital IDs Digital IDs are no longer the future, they’re here. We’ve had over 6.5m downloads
Articles
Jul 22, 2025
Over 6 million UK Digital ID downloads
We’re excited to share that our Digital ID apps have now been downloaded over six million times in the UK! 🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who has chosen one of our Digital ID apps – Yoti ID, Post Office EasyID and Lloyds Bank Smart ID. Whether you’re proving your age or identity, swapping verified details with others, or taking more control over your personal data, our Digital IDs are helping millions of people prove who they are. Privacy-preserving age checks You will probably notice that you’re being asked to prove your age more often online. This
Press releases
Jul 22, 2025
Yoti facial age estimation reaches new accuracy for teenagers, ready for Online Safety Act enforcement
Ahead of the UK’s Online Safety Act, Yoti releases the latest facial age estimation white paper, with improved accuracy rates Yoti enhances teen age accuracy to just 13 months 22nd July 2025, London, UK – Today, Yoti has released the latest facial age estimation white paper, showing improved accuracy for all ages, most notably for young people aged 13-17. This comes just days before the UK’s Online Safety Act comes into force, requiring platforms to introduce highly effective age checks, of which facial age estimation is an approved method. Key takeaways from the white paper: 13-17 year
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Apr 08, 2025
Introducing Yoti Keys: privacy-focused, seamless and anonymous age verification
We’re excited to announce a new age assurance solution: Yoti Keys. Yoti Keys let people verify their age once and gain continued access to an ecosystem of websites without having to prove their age again, regardless of if they are using an incognito or private browser. A Yoti Key, using passkey technology, doesn’t store any personal information. This helps people to remain completely anonymous but verified – all on their device. How a Yoti Key works Complete an age check: The user completes an initial age check to prove their age. They can choose which method to use,
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Feb 19, 2025
Deepfake attacks: Rising fraud trends and our experience in preventing them
In 2024, we witnessed a significant increase in the number of deepfake attacks, or injection attacks during age and identity verification checks. The percentage of attacks increased from 1.6% to 3.9%. In absolute terms, this is a significant rise in the total number of attacks we have detected as we significantly expanded our services in 2024. We now perform over 5 million checks per week across all our services. With the introduction of various regulations globally, companies have been obliged to implement more robust age or identity checks for their users. We have seen injection attacks across identity verification
Articles
Jan 20, 2025
Yoti responds to Ofcom’s final guidance on highly effective age assurance for Part 5 pornography providers
Ofcom has published the final guidance on highly effective age assurance for (Part 5) providers of pornography, under the Online Safety Act. There are a lot of good principles and effective guidance to ensure children are protected online and there is a clear deadline of July 2025 for all sites (be that pornography sites or social media platforms which allow pornography) to have age verification in place to prevent children from accessing adult content. We are pleased to see that Ofcom has listed several popular age assurance methods, such as facial age estimation, Digital ID wallets, and document verification,