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Mar 27, 2020
Pledging our digital identity verification services free to organisations tackling the Covid-19 crisis
Updated Friday 27th March 2020: Read more about how we can help organisations involved in the global fight against the Covid-19 pandemic here. At Yoti, we have spent six years building a secure identity platform that makes it simpler and safer to prove who we are in our modern, digital world. We have always offered our digital identity app free to eligible charities and nonprofits, and for the next three months, we will be extending this commitment to any public health organisation, emergency service and community initiative tackling the Covid-19 crisis. We want to help organisations under immense pressure to
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Mar 12, 2020
Welcoming three more partners to our Humanitarian Tech Support Programme
Last month, we proudly announced the launch of our Humanitarian Tech Support Programme, a new initiative designed to support tech-focused startups focusing on global humanitarian problems. Using our unique blend of global development and digital identity experience, we have already started helping Lanterne in their mission to deliver a trusted, secure alert system to humanitarian fieldworkers in Afghanistan (over the last decade, more than 3,000 humanitarian workers were killed, injured or kidnapped in conflict zones around the world.) Today we are pleased to announce details of a further three Programme Partners. People in Need People in Need helps people
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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
