selfie
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What’s the deal? Right now on Amazon, the Neewer Basic 7-inch Desktop Phone Selfie Light Kit is on sale for $25 thanks to a 20% off Cyber Monday discount and an extra 10% off coupon.
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“Please upload a selfie with your ID to verify your identity” — such requests are becoming increasingly common for various online services. Banks, car rental services, even potential employers or landlords may ask for such photos.
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Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram says its testing new ways to use facial recognition—both to combat scams and to help restore access to compromised accounts.
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India’s payment industry continues to upgrade and introduce advancements in digital payment systems and user verification technologies, with face biometrics as an increasingly common core feature.
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HyperVerge has unmasked itself as the only one among 16 participating biometrics providers to meet all of the benchmarks in the recent assessment of selfie identity verification technologies by an American government agency.
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Selfie biometrics and identity verification providers have announced new certifications and market traction. SmartSearch is now recognized as an IDSP in the UK, while Daon and Trulioo have unveiled new customers, and Sumsub has a major new distribution partner.
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Innovatrics presents a use case, AuthID nabs a new deal and another BIPA lawsuit has been filed over selfie biometrics in the U.S.
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Selfie biometrics cannot be relied on to show you are a real person, and government ID documents do not scale. These provocative opinions were shared in a recent Forbes Technology Council (fee-based) post by Tools for Humanity Head of Protocol Steven Smith.
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Identity verification providers have announced new products that demonstrate several different ways to use selfie biometrics in identity verification.
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Selfie biometrics remain a popular tool for digital ID verification, authentication and KYC, with new integrations and partner developments across the UK and Europe for firms including Yoti, Daon, iDenfy and FaceTec. But features such as liveness and channel artifact detection will become increasingly important as deepfake fraud techniques achieve a new level of realism.
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The nostalgic image of the agrarian farmer is pixelating in Australia, where AgPick Technology, an agritech provider based out of Aldinga, is now offering a face biometric authentication app designed to protect growers, suppliers and pickers from identity fraud.
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Several telecom companies have announced they will use Accura Scan for KYC, while, “robo advisor” InbestMe has signed on to use Onfido’s ID verification. Signzy and Confirm are also targeting online marketplaces to make transactions more secure.
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The Google voice assistant is one of the best tools to make your life a little easier. And today, we are going to show you the Google command take me a selfie and how it works.
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Identity verification firms AuthID and Trulioo are each starting December with new deals, but not everyone is happy with selfie biometrics: A U.S. court will be hearing a lawsuit against identity verification processes.
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Shufti Pro and Sumsub have both announced updates to improve the effectiveness of their face biometric software, for authentication in the former case and identity verification in the latter.
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Identity verification companies that utilize selfie biometrics such as IDVerse, Oz Forensics, FaceTec, authID and Simplici have announced a wealth of new milestones, customers and products.
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Capital markets trading fintech Newton Global has selected Shufti Pro to perform know your customer and anti-money laundering screening for users being onboarded to its platform. Shufti Pro will provide selfie biometrics with liveness detection, as well as checks against sanctions, adverse media, politically exposed persons and other important databases for regulatory compliance.
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A number of prominent identity verification and selfie biometrics firms have made inroads with new customers around the world from industries other than financial services.
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I do not have an insightful point to make here, so this is only a rant.
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…by uploading a photo of a piece of paper saying, “I’m not uploading a picture of my face ever.”