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Mar 06, 2020
Yoti is speeding up KYC for Gamesys online casinos and bingo
Leading gaming operator Gamesys Group is transforming the registration experience with Yoti’s document scanning and verification product Doc Scan. Doc Scan will be embedded into Gamesys’ bingo and casino game sites. Yoti’s Doc Scan is simple yet robust for businesses and customers alike, offering seamless identity checking with our award-winning technology under the hood. Together, we’ll help people register faster, while helping Gamesys tackle fraud and comply with the Gambling Commissions players safety rules. Doc Scan makes gaming ID verification easy for customers without compromising on security. It helps businesses complete know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) checks around the
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Mar 04, 2020
Gamesys Group PLC supercharges KYC with identity verification from Yoti
LONDON – 4th March 2020 – Global online gaming operator Gamesys Group PLC will leverage Yoti’s advanced identity verification technology to enhance the customer experience and KYC process while tackling identity fraud. Yoti’s integrated solution Doc Scan will transform Gamesys customer experience – offering a simple, private and secure way of proving identity when signing up for Gamesys sites on the web, mobile, and tablet. Doc Scan will be embedded into the Gamesys user flow and will deliver know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) checks to enhance compliance and boost onboarding efficiency for players around the globe that can access
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Feb 15, 2020
Safer Internet Day with the Marie Collins Foundation
‘Free to be me’ was the theme for this year’s Safer Internet Day, which was marked by new research from the UK Safe Internet Centre that found young people’s online experiences are an essential part of who they are offline. The freedom that young people enjoy online is found to be building an informed and inspired generation, but it is also making them vulnerable to an unprecedented level of online grooming and sexual abuse. The internet has largely escaped regulation through fear that restricting access to information is censorship, but as more and more of our lives are lived out
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Jan 30, 2020
Paz's diary entry January 2020 - Changing faces of identity in Argentina
This is the second field diary entry from Paz, one of our Digital Identity Fellows. Her year-long research project is focused on unravelling what digital identity, and identity in general, means to the unemployed and under-employed individuals receiving support from public job centres and local labour organisations in Gran Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata in Argentina. ***** Discussing digital identity is hard, particularly here in Argentina. It has forced me to rethink the interview questions as well as the list of interviewees. So far I have conducted a number of semi-structured interviews with the key research subjects: unemployed
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Jan 29, 2020
Announcing our new Humanitarian Tech Support Programme
As we see in a new decade the world seems to be staring down the barrel of ever-more humanitarian challenges. At the start of 2020 The New Humanitarian lists urban displacement, conflict, antibiotic resistance to infectious disease, gang violence, extremism and climate change as just some of crises facing not just the developing world, but the planet as a whole. While some things have improved for some people, life is still a major struggle for the vast majority of people on the planet. In purely economic terms, for example, one in every two people globally lives on less than $5.50
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Jan 27, 2020
Updates from the field – Subhashish's diary entry January 2020
This is the second field diary entry from Subhashish, one of our Digital Identity Fellows. His year-long research project is focused on the challenges and opportunities within marginalised groups most affected by Aadhaar, India’s national digital ID system. *** India’s ambitious biometric-based identity — Unique Identity (UID) — has been the focus of the State of Aadhaar report recently published by Dalberg Global Development Advisors, a global consulting firm. The study — made possible with funding from Omidyar Network — includes a sample size of 167,000 Indian residents and sheds some light on many facets of Aadhaar. While the report
