Digital IDs soon to be accepted as proof of age for buying alcohol
It’s the news we’ve been waiting for. People will soon be able to use digital IDs to prove their age when buying alcohol. The Government has shared an update, confirming the change will come in next year. Digital IDs will give people an easier, safer and more secure way to prove their age when buying alcohol in high street pubs, supermarkets, convenience stores, nightclubs, pubs and bars. This is a significant step forward and demonstrates the growing importance and demand for reusable Digital IDs. In the UK, over five million people have already downloaded our Digital ID apps. These
White papers
Nov 28, 2024
Yoti Digital Identity Report 1 - What is Digital ID?
Welcome to the first report of our new series on Digital Identity. This report focuses on ‘what is digital identity’, delving into the different definitions of the term. Digital Identity is becoming an increasingly adopted, implemented and discussed. As such it is important to understand the difference between different definitions. Download our first digital identity report – What is Digital ID? – below. No personal details, ID or data is required. Download
Articles
Oct 25, 2024
Age Check Certification Scheme evaluation for Yoti Facial Age Estimation
We are pleased to announce Yoti has been re-evaluated by the Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) for our facial age estimation (FAE) on our latest September 2024 model. ACCS now report our Mean Absolute Error (MAE) for 18 year olds is just 1.05 years, with a Standard Deviation (SD) of just 1.01 years. ACCS first tested Yoti’s September 2020 model in November 2020, reporting the MAE for 18 year olds to be 1.79, demonstrating our continued effort to improve the performance of our model. Yoti has been training its FAE model since early 2018 by using data captured mainly
Case studies
Oct 16, 2024
How Yoti developed over 70 integrations in 9 months
“With the average business using over 130 software products, forward looking SaaS providers like Yoti are focused on connected experiences and making integrations a core competency.” Marcus Edgington VP of Product, Prismatic Prismatic is the world’s most versatile embedded iPaaS, helping B2B SaaS teams launch powerful product integrations up to 8x faster. Learn how Yoti used Prismatic’s embedded integration platform to bring our integrations to life. So far, we have over 70 integrations for businesses to choose from. That’s more than any other identity company. Using the Prismatic platform, we now build an integration in two weeks
Articles
Oct 01, 2024
How accurate is facial age estimation?
“How accurate is it?” is the first question regulators, businesses and users tend to ask about facial age estimation. To date, we have mainly presented the technology’s Mean Absolute Error (MAE) as a proxy for accuracy. It’s an intuitive way to understand how accurate a model is. We can say it’s accurate to 1.3 MAE for those aged between 13 and 17 years or 2.5 MAE for those aged between 6 and 70 years. However, the answer is slightly more complicated. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, many people will be more aware of the terms ‘true positive’ and ‘false negative’
Articles
Sep 20, 2024
34 percent of people choose reusable Digital ID to prove their identity for DBS checks
Since June 2022, Yoti has completed over 1.6 million right to work (RTW) checks and over 930,000 DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) checks. Of those checks: 34% of UK adults choose to use Yoti, Post Office EasyID or Lloyds Bank Smart ID to prove their identity for DBS checks. 23% of UK adults choose to use Yoti, Post Office EasyID or Lloyds Bank Smart ID to complete their RTW checks. Yoti, Post Office EasyID and Lloyds Bank Smart ID are all certified by the UK Digital Identity & Attributes Trust Framework (UK DIATF) as proof of identity for Right