Articles
Jun 17, 2021
Our approach to tracking and analytics
We set up Yoti to give people a safer way of proving who they are. Instead of giving over your full identity details each time you had to prove one thing about yourself, we built an app that stores your ID as attributes that you can share individually. With the Yoti app, you can just share the fact that you are over 18, and keep the rest of your information, including your date of birth, private. This approach is called data minimisation and is designed to protect your privacy. We do verify your ID document is
Case studies
Apr 22, 2021
How the Government of Jersey delivers online services with digital ID
“A secure digital ID system is fundamental to providing integrated, online services and supporting the modernisation of Jersey’s public sector. Yoti’s technology will enable islanders to prove who they are so they can safely access government services online.” Senator Gorst Former Chief Minister of Jersey Jersey is a UK crown dependency in the Channel Islands with a population of around 108,000 people, all of whom can now access a wide range of local government services online using Yoti Digital ID. We helped them: Let citizens verify their identity online to access government services from the comfort
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Apr 21, 2021
Welcoming our ten millionth Yoti app download 🚀
We started out in 2014 with a huge, complex task built around a simple mission – to fix the broken identity system and make it simpler and safer for people to prove who they are. This has been our driving force from day one and will continue to shape how we develop our business and products. It’s our purpose. Yoti has grown from a small team with the goal of putting people’s ID on their phone, to a global identity network verifying people and their ID documents from over 195 countries. This is now backed by
Articles
Mar 25, 2021
African Conservation Challenge: digital identity to foster trusted community engagement
We’re excited to announce the launch of our latest social purpose initiative – an African Conservation Challenge exploring the use of digital identities to help foster authentic, trusted, dignified online dialogue between communities and other stakeholders engaged in conservation across the Southern Africa region. The Challenge is open to individuals and organisations based anywhere in Africa, and comes with a prize of $15,000. Background Historically, rural voices have been either missing or largely ignored in much of the debate and decision making around the management of natural resources, particularly wildlife, in Africa. It is widely
Articles
Mar 19, 2021
Practice guide 81: digital identity verification for conveyancing
On 12 March 2021, Her Majesty’s Land Registry (HMLR) published its first digital identity standard, practice guide 81 (PG81). The standard is aimed at encouraging the use of digital identity to reduce the inconvenience and inconsistency of manually verifying a client’s identity during the homebuying process. Reducing the need for physical document checks performed by non-specialists can mitigate opportunities for fraud, increase convenience and lower costs for all parties involved in the home buying process. The standard follows the draft set of requirements, published in November 2020, which Yoti provided feedback on. Practice guide 81:
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