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Nov 18, 2021
How digital identity could be used to monitor food and cash rations
As we go about our social purpose work we regularly get to speak to local, national and international non-profit organisations. Over the years, we’ve found that many struggle to understand the many ways digital identity solutions might help them in their work. As part of our wider efforts to help the sector make sense of the technology, today we’re publishing the first of six articles looking at the use of digital identities in six different humanitarian and environmental settings. Please note that, while the technology use case is real, the scenarios are hypothetical in nature, and the projects do not
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Nov 16, 2021
Tackling child sexual abuse online with the Safety Tech Challenge Fund
We’re delighted to announce that the Safety Tech Challenge Fund 2021 has awarded Yoti and our collaborators with not one, but two rounds of funding. Working in partnership with Galaxkey & Image Analyzer and DragonflAI, we are looking to tackle child sexual abuse and demonstrate how end-to-end encryption and AI-powered image analysis could be used to create secure solutions that protects young people online. Between 2019 and 2020, over 10,000 cases of online child sexual abuse were reported to police forces across the UK. In efforts to create change to prevent such crimes, the UK
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Nov 05, 2021
Our age assurance solutions are approved by German regulators KJM and FSM to protect young people online
We’re excited to announce that The Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM) has approved our facial age estimation tool (formerly known as Yoti Age Scan) to be used in the German market to protect young people online. You can read the KJM press release here. This follows our approval from the German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Digital Media service providers (FSM) in 2020, which allowed German people to use digital age estimation and age verification technology for the first time ever to access digital adult content. You can read the FSM seal text here.
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Nov 04, 2021
Protect yourself and your pets with Post Office EasyID and Yoti peer-to-peer checks
Scammers delight with fake online profiles Identity-related fraud is accelerating in the real world and particularly online, where it’s easy to hide and act behind a fake profile unchecked. Despite calls from victims and campaigners, most platforms don’t want to add friction into their user journeys in fear that people will migrate to another site. Fraud comes in a number of shapes and sizes, and the consequences can be physically, financially, and emotionally damaging. Whether someone is trying to sell stolen goods, committing romance scams, catfishing, or advertising property rentals that don’t exist, there
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Oct 28, 2021
Get ahead of new age and identity verification regulations with our handy guide to know your customer (KYC) processes
It’s no longer financial institutions, real estate, art dealers, casinos, lawyers, and accountants who are the main targets for financial crimes online. Criminals are finding it harder to use them for money laundering due to rigorous regulations and effective know your customer (KYC) processes. To go undetected, they have set their sights on online multiplayer gaming, online marketplaces, FinTech, online gambling and many more small and medium businesses. Lawbreakers are attracted to these platforms because they have little to no anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regulations. For example, multiplayer online gaming platforms have experienced
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Oct 26, 2021
Yoti’s facial age estimation technology provides accurate real-time age assurance for under 13s
The privacy-preserving technology launched to help social networks and other businesses protect children from harms Adults and children simply look into a camera to pass an age check using their face – there’s no need for an ID document and no personal data is held or shared LONDON – 26/10/2021 – Global digital identity network Yoti has today announced that its Facial Age Estimation technology has been extended to children under 13. This opens new opportunities for social networks, gaming brands and other businesses to protect children online and comply with regulations from online safety regulators – such as the
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To protect young people online, businesses need to provide age-appropriate experiences for their users. This could apply to online marketplaces, social media networks, content sharing platforms and gaming sites. But to put the correct measures in place, businesses need to know the ages of their customers. It was previously thought that the only way to confidently establish a user’s age was with an identity document, like a passport or driving licence, or checks to third-party databases such as credit reference agencies or mobile network operators. However, regulators are now recognising facial age estimation as an effective alternative. As with