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Nov 26, 2021
How digital identity could help make cross-border trading easier
As we go about our social purpose work we regularly get to speak to local, national and international non-profit organisations. Over the years, we’ve found that many struggle to understand the many ways digital identity solutions might help them in their work. As part of our wider efforts to help the sector make sense of the technology, today we’re publishing the second of six articles looking at the use of digital identities in six different humanitarian settings. Please note that, while the technology use-case is real, the scenarios are hypothetical in nature, and the projects do not exist
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Nov 23, 2021
Making it easier for EU residents to prove their COVID-19 Vaccination status
Vaccine certificates are proving fundamental in safely opening the world up, and being able to prove your COVID status via the Yoti app for travel, leisure and work has been the most requested feature by the Yoti community in recent months. That’s why we’re excited to announce that it is now possible for fully vaccinated people to add their EU COVID-19 Vaccine Certificate to their Yoti app. Add your vaccine certificate to the Yoti app in seconds Before you add your vaccine credentials to your Yoti app, you’ll need to make sure you’ve also added
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Nov 18, 2021
How digital identity could be used to monitor food and cash rations
As we go about our social purpose work we regularly get to speak to local, national and international non-profit organisations. Over the years, we’ve found that many struggle to understand the many ways digital identity solutions might help them in their work. As part of our wider efforts to help the sector make sense of the technology, today we’re publishing the first of six articles looking at the use of digital identities in six different humanitarian and environmental settings. Please note that, while the technology use case is real, the scenarios are hypothetical in nature, and the projects do not
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Nov 16, 2021
Tackling child sexual abuse online with the Safety Tech Challenge Fund
We’re delighted to announce that the Safety Tech Challenge Fund 2021 has awarded Yoti and our collaborators with not one, but two rounds of funding. Working in partnership with Galaxkey & Image Analyzer and DragonflAI, we are looking to tackle child sexual abuse and demonstrate how end-to-end encryption and AI-powered image analysis could be used to create secure solutions that protects young people online. Between 2019 and 2020, over 10,000 cases of online child sexual abuse were reported to police forces across the UK. In efforts to create change to prevent such crimes, the UK Government
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Nov 05, 2021
Our age assurance solutions are approved by German regulators KJM and FSM to protect young people online
We’re excited to announce that The Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM) has approved our facial age estimation tool (formerly known as Yoti Age Scan) to be used in the German market to protect young people online. You can read the KJM press release here. This follows our approval from the German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Digital Media service providers (FSM) in 2020, which allowed German people to use digital age estimation and age verification technology for the first time ever to access digital adult content. You can read the FSM seal text here.
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Nov 04, 2021
Protect yourself and your pets with Post Office EasyID and Yoti peer-to-peer checks
Scammers delight with fake online profiles Identity-related fraud is accelerating in the real world and particularly online, where it’s easy to hide and act behind a fake profile unchecked. Despite calls from victims and campaigners, most platforms don’t want to add friction into their user journeys in fear that people will migrate to another site. Fraud comes in a number of shapes and sizes, and the consequences can be physically, financially, and emotionally damaging. Whether someone is trying to sell stolen goods, committing romance scams, catfishing, or advertising property rentals that don’t exist, there are