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Yoti Named As Digital Innovator 2016
Yoti has been named as one of the South East’s most visionary digital companies in the inaugural ‘Digital Innovators Power List’ launched today by international law firm Bird & Bird LLP and London-based news brand, City A.M. Revealed last night at a launch event hosted at Bird & Bird’s dynamic new space at 12 New Fetter Lane, London, and launched today on CityAM.com, the Power List identifies 20 companies based in London and the surrounding areas in the media, health tech, fintech, ed tech and cybersecurity and identity sectors that are leading the way in digital innovation. The shortlist was
Yoti Wins Cyber Security Award 2016
The 2016 Cyber Security Awards rewards the best individuals, teams and companies within the cyber security industry. Excellence and innovation are core themes, throughout all categories. We won ‘Cyber security start up of the year’ award With Yoti, smartphone owners will be able to prove their age with their phone, use selfies instead of passwords and instantly know who they are really talking to online and in person. Judge Karla Jobling said “the competition to be named as a winner this year was especially tough. We saw some well-known individuals and companies enter, as well as a range of
Yoti Wins CMA 2016 Award
We are very proud to announce that Yoti went on to win in the category of ‘Next Generation Ecosystem’! The 2016 Contactless & Mobile Awards honour achievements across a wide range of sectors and countries throughout Europe and further afield. This is the tenth anniversary for the awards and this year the organisers felt that it was time to do a consolidation of award categories to reflect the ever-changing face of the industry. “Many of the categories were becoming too similar,” commented Steve Atkins, Editor-in-Chief of Contactless Intelligence. “At the same time we wanted to shine a light upon
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Apr 01, 2016
Our Guardian Council
At Yoti, one of our core principles that guides our development is, ‘Be transparent and accountable’. Trust in technology companies appears to be on the decline, most likely because of data misappropriation and a lack of transparency. As a tech company that interacts with personal user data, integrity is paramount in everything we do. Our business cannot function without being trustworthy, so we’ve put measures in place to make sure we are always adhering to our principles and ethical framework. This is why we’ve integrated several initiatives into our operations to make sure we never stray from our core principles, one of
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Mar 01, 2016
Meet the Guardians: Doc Searls
“For the last two decades, I have been encouraging solutions to identity issues that start by empowering individuals. In Yoti I see one of the most creative and potentiated approaches to this challenge, and welcome the opportunity to help guide the company’s efforts as the new and protean marketplace for individual empowerment evolves.” Yoti Guardian Council Yoti Guardians are influential individuals who ensure that Yoti always seeks to do the right thing, and that we are transparent about what we are doing and why. Guardians will bring their expert, independent perspectives and skills to three main responsibilities: Making sure
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Feb 15, 2016
Meet the Guardians: Renata Avila
“Yoti is one of the rare companies placing people’s rights, especially people’s right to privacy, at the centre of its mission and coding it into the design of its product. This is important because laws and business practices are lagging behind the rapid pace of innovation in technology. I’m honoured and excited to offer my perspectives on digital inequality and human rights best practices as Yoti works to overcome the challenge of the next decade: restoring trust. I hope we can make the Guardian Council a good practice that will spread across this sector and others.” Yoti Guardian
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Announcing our Digital Identity Toolkit
A few years ago, we realised that for those not within the field, the world of digital identity is a bit of an enigma. Then we realised that we’re in as good a position as any to do something about that. So we went about researching, collaborating and creating something that we hope will help: our Digital Identity Toolkit. What is the Digital Identity Toolkit? This Toolkit is a collection of everything you need to know about digital identity. We’ve covered topics from identity basics to examples of how digital identity is used in the real world. Though digital
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May 18, 2023
Doing things the Yoti way: our commitments
We’re on a mission to become the world’s trusted identity platform. Building trust means not only ensuring our technology is robust and secure, but doing the right thing as a company. It’s easy enough to measure success against our own standards. But we know that to truly make a difference, we need to go further than that and look externally too. One way that we do this is through publicly committing to uphold frameworks and standards created by completely independent, third-party organisations. This third and final part of our Governance series contains a snapshot of just some of the commitments
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Apr 18, 2023
Doing things the Yoti way: our Guardian Council and Ethics & Trust Committee
This is the second article in our three-part series looking at how our governance processes guide us in doing business the right way. This one focuses on our Guardian Council and our Ethics & Trust Committee. Our Guardian Council Our Guardian Council is formed of an independent board of advisors. Yoti Guardians bring expertise from careers in sectors such as human rights, data privacy and last mile tech. Their role is to advise and guide us as we navigate the complex world of identity, digital or otherwise. Guardians have no financial stake in the company but are instead wholeheartedly