Canada
Trulioo has appointed Michael Ramsbacker as its first chief product officer to oversee the launch of new digital identity verification solutions via Trulioo GlobalGateway, its network of identity data and services.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Michael to Trulioo,” said Steve Munford, CEO, Trulioo. “His immense product management acumen and industry experience in successfully deploying solutions globally will help catalyse the Trulioo product roadmap and ensure we continue meeting the diverse needs of our global customer base.”
Formerly VP of product management at Mitek Systems, Ramsbacker drove global product strategy and roadmap development for the company’s digital identity portfolio, including biometric authentication and document verification. In the role, he rebuilt the product management organisation and instituted model processes for customer risk management compliance.
Zimbabwe
Yoti says its digital identity technology is helping to advance wildlife conservation efforts in Zimbabwe. Specifically, it is helping to save the Southern ground hornbill from extinction.
BirdLife Zimbabwe is trying to enlist the help of local volunteers to report any hornbill sightings. Digital identity technology can ensure that they will not share their information with poachers. It can vet volunteers through online or in-person interviews, and issue digital IDs to volunteers to give them access to an online community where people could share hornbill sightings knowing that the other people in the group will not pass that information on to people with ill intent.
The IDs would include names, addresses, and facial biometrics to make sure that each identity is legitimate. Reports could also take behavioural and location data into account, since most group members would report sightings near their homes.
Switzerland
Gatenox has launched a new-generation decentralised identity wallet built on Aleph Zero – a Swiss “non-profit, enterprise-ready, peer-reviewed, developer-friendly” platform.
The wallet offers “seamless, near-zero cost and one-time” Know-Your-Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) compliance for individual use and integration by exchanges, applications, Web 3.0 services, as well as fintech and banks.
The Gatenox wallet leverages Liminal — Aleph Zero’s plug-and-play privacy protocol — to allow users to prove their data is valid without revealing personally-identifying information.
United States
Permiso, a startup monitoring digital identities to analyze them for risk scoring, has picked up $10 million in a Seed funding round to provide digital identity detection and response for cloud infrastructures.
Founded by former executives at cybersecurity firm FireEye and two others, Permiso has developed a platform for profiling and monitoring human and machine identities and credentials to spot malicious or anomalous behaviors that could indicate a threat. The company says its technology can be used to measure progress towards identity and access management goals, detect credential abuse, and perform faster, more intelligent investigations.
The company plans to use the influx of funds to scale its engineering team, expand its customer base, and form new partnerships.
United Arab Emirates
Princeton Identity (PI) has entered a new biometrics partnership with security solution provider Emphor Trading Abu Dhabi, a division of ScreenCheck and subsidiary of The Centena Group.
As part of the collaboration, Emphor Trading will provide its customers with PI’s full line of iris and face biometric security solutions, complemented by customized integrations to address specific security and operational needs.
PI’s biometric technologies will reportedly be implemented by Emphor Trading across a variety of industries, including government, corporate, education, manufacturing, oil & gas, and retail, among others. It will integrate PI’s biometric solutions within a wide range of physical and logical security technologies, such as ID cards, time and attendance, access control, video surveillance, and RFID.
Ethiopia
The government of Ethiopia is launching a new National ID Program (NIDP) in collaboration with TECH5. The Fayida Identity Management System (IDMS) is now entering a limited pilot phase, during which TECH5 and NIDP Ethiopia will gather biometric information and issue digital IDs to participating citizens.
The programme is based on the open-source MOSIP platform, and takes advantage of a number of different TECH5 solutions. During the pilot, Ethiopian authorities will collect face, fingerprint, and iris biometrics, and then use TECH5’s biometric SDKs to assess the quality of each image. The government will also use the T5-ABIS to make sure that there are no duplicates in Ethiopia’s National ID database.
Finally, the T5-IDencode solution has been integrated with MOSIP to allow the government to generate and issue Digital IDs to citizens once the registration process is complete. Those digital IDs can be printed or stored electronically on a standard smartphone, and verified with a smartphone app in both online and offline situations. As a result, the IDs can be used as proof of identity (or proof of age) in settings that have traditionally required a physical ID card.
United States
Daon has announced the availability of its digital identity verification and proofing solution. The company says the new offering gives customers more back-end power, data visibility, and fine-grained control over their identity decision-making.
It is hosted in Daon’s secure cloud, and delivered in an out-of-the-box, no/low code web app.
