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Yoti is a digital identity company that makes it safer for people to prove who they are. We started by empowering people with a free, reusable digital ID app that minimises the data they share with businesses. We now provide verification solutions across the globe, spanning identity verification, age verification, eSigning and authentication.

Shaping the future of travel with Heathrow Airport

We have more big news to share with you this week. We’re excited to announce that we are involved in trials with Heathrow, to explore biometric travel for passengers. With annual passenger volumes rising, airlines and airports are looking to technology to transform airports as we know them, reducing queue times, increasing security standards and importantly, delivering an enhanced customer experience that puts them in control.   What we’re doing An initial proof of concept allowed participating Heathrow staff to use the Yoti app to share their verified passport information and facial biometric to check-in to their flight. The process

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Streamlining the self-checkout experience with NCR

It’s an all too familiar scene: you’re at the supermarket picking up dinner and a nice bottle of wine. It’s Friday, and you just want to get home and relax. The queues for the staffed checkouts are long, and you’re in a rush to catch the train home, so you opt for the speed of self-checkout. But as soon as you scan your wine, you’re told that assistance is needed. You look around, but there is no one to be seen. When you do spot a member of staff, you smile and wave, letting them know you need help. But

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Meet The Guardians: Gavin Starks

Meet Gavin Starks, our newest member of the Yoti Guardian Council. Yoti Guardians are influential people who ensure that we always do what’s right by our community, and that we are transparent about what we are doing and why. Guardians bring their expert, independent perspectives and skills to three main responsibilities: Ensuring we continue to build trust and give our users control of their personal data. Making sure we optimise our products, services and partnerships to make life simpler for our community. Reporting any breaches of trust and representing any concerns shared by a significant percentage of the community. Introducing

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We want to hear about your charity’s digital identity needs

How could digital identification help UK charities to more effectively collect information about people using their services? Do charities need to prove who people are, ensure that they are legally eligible for services or to record and recall information about them? If they do, what worries them about the process? Could Yoti Keys help people to take ownership of their background information and how they share it when accessing multiple, or repeat, services? We have commissioned Nissa Ramsay of Think Social Tech, together with Pauline Roche of RnR Organisation, to find answers to these all important questions. Nissa and Pauline

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Digital identity in the last mile: grassroots research overview

We recently commissioned research to better understand digital identity needs in the developing world. Specifically, we wanted to understand how grassroots nonprofits could benefit from a digital identity platform to conduct their humanitarian work in Africa and South East Asia. Today, we’re publishing an overview of the project. The short document outlines the initial thinking behind our research, our thoughts on an offline product, what we sought to learn from the field based research and a few of our higher level findings. Download the ‘Digital identity in the last mile’ overview here. Please read through it and share it far

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Getting to grips with GDPR: Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling

The eighth blog post in our series on GDPR rights is about the rights in relation to automated decision making. So far, our series has covered: Your right to be informed Access rights Correction rights Deletion rights Objection rights Restriction rights Portability rights   Part 8: Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling This is not a new right and the GDPR wording is almost identical to that in the EU Directive it replaces. The aim of this right is to provide safeguards for individuals against the risk that a potentially damaging decision is taken without human intervention.

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