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Mar 18, 2021
Developing age estimation technology to tackle grooming online
Last month, Yoti Guardian Gavin Starks chaired our third stakeholder roundtable on the next proposed stage of the development of our age estimation technology. We brought together fifty five guests from seven countries, including representatives from 5rights, Apps for Good, Be In Touch South Africa, Breck Foundation, Caribou Digital, CyberSafeIreland, Digital Policy Alliance, FSM Germany – Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter, GoBubble, IEEE, Interactive Software Federation of Europe, International Committee of the Red Cross, Internet Commission, Internet Watch Foundation, Irish Data Protection Commission, Keele University, KJM German Federal Agency for the Protection of Minors, London School of Economics,
Press releases
Mar 17, 2021
Connells Group adopts Yoti eSignatures for its sales and lettings business
Connells Group, the UK’s largest estate agency and property services provider, has switched to eSignatures from Yoti for its sales and lettings business. This follows a successful move to Yoti for sales contracts in April 2020 that has brought improvements including 67% of contracts being signed within 2 hours along with cost savings. Headquartered in Leighton Buzzard, Connells Group has 6,800 staff and manages 60,000 tenancies through its 600 branches. It is the UK’s leading property group offering estate agency, corporate lettings, mortgage, survey, valuation and conveyancing services. Connells Group manages a high volume of contracts
Case studies
Feb 22, 2021
How Riley Cillian prioritises user safety with automated age checks
“As a company, we decided that we really wanted to go the extra mile to protect vulnerable children but we didn’t want to compromise on our seamless user experience. Luckily, Yoti’s technology allows us to do both – keep the platform safe with minimum disruption to users.” Florian Ehrbar Head of Trust and Safety Operations at Riley Cillian Riley Cillian is a technology company on a mission to build a global community, enabling people to make connections across cultures, languages and borders. We helped them: Maintain a friction-free onboarding process whilst still safeguarding minors. Carry out millions of
Case studies
Feb 22, 2021
How the Improvement Services is digitising public services with Yoti
“Yoti ticks all the boxes when it comes to delivering digital public services. Their app is easy to use and equips citizens with a secure way of proving who they are to gain access to the services that they’re eligible for.” Andrew Campbell Programme Manager of Digital Public Services at the Improvement Service The Improvement Service is the ‘go to’ organisation for local government improvement in Scotland. Their customer online portal myaccount.gov gives citizens access to public services online. We helped them: Streamline the online onboarding process. Deliver identity verification upon registration. Protect accounts with 2-factor biometric authentication.
Press releases
Feb 15, 2021
Post Office expands its digital identity services offering in new partnership with Yoti
Partnership combines Post Office’s experience in identity services and extensive branch network with Yoti’s leading identity technology to play key role in driving UK’s digital transformation. Post Office already market leader for providing digital identity solutions to access Government services. Partnership with Yoti now sees Post Office expand its identity services, launching a new free-to-use Post Office App for customers and in-branch services that gives people a choice as to how they prove or confirm their identity, enabling them to simply, safely and securely transact online and in person. Demonstration of Post Office strategy to embrace new technology, with ambition
Articles
Feb 09, 2021
Helping to protect kids this Safer Internet Day and beyond
Ahead of the Age Appropriate Design Code, many companies are looking at how to provide age-appropriate services, messaging, content and, crucially for parents, how to deter grooming. We are working in the ICO Sandbox with partners including child-content moderation SaaS GoBubble (GoBubbleWrap), to further develop our privacy-preserving age estimation technology so that it can accurately estimate the age of children under 13. This vital ICO Sandbox partnership will offer child-centric content moderation with global scalability on a Software as a Service (SaaS) basis. This will include privacy information and accessible parental consent mechanisms, including the option
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Addressing social challenges: How identity verification can help solve everyday problems
At Yoti, we consider our social purpose alongside everything we do. Through every step of the design process, we think about the everyday challenges that our solutions can solve. This series looks at how our products can benefit individual users and wider society. This article focuses on how identity verification could help with some common issues. Why do we need to verify our identity online? As technology evolves, more services are moving online. Companies need to ensure that the right people can access the right services for them. This has resulted in a growing need for people to prove