Identy.io provides biometric authentication on mobile phones, for secure and user-friendly identity verification, enabling government and corporate customers to grow operations with a cost-effective suite of products.
Identy.io’s latest results in NIST FRIF TE E1N demonstrate what happens when accuracy, speed, and scalability are maintained simultaneously, precisely where biometric identification is most demanding. An ABIS exists to answer one question: Who is this person? It does not start with a claimed identity to verify. Instead, it searches
Most biometric projects that go wrong chose the wrong operation, not the wrong vendor. Verification and identification look similar on a diagram and behave completely differently at scale. Getting this right early determines your accuracy targets, your infrastructure cost and whether your system can grow without a rebuild. The two
ABIS stands for Automated Biometric Identification System. In biometrics it means one specific thing: a system that enrols biometric records, stores them, and searches a submitted biometric against the whole database to find out who someone is. The acronym is used for other things in other industries, including retail point
The honest version of this comparison is that ABIS is a superset of AFIS. An AFIS searches fingerprints, and often palmprints. An ABIS adds faces and, in some deployments, irises, and it can combine them. Everything else follows from that. What that superset buys you, and what it costs, is
Giving People Back Their Identity: How Mobile Fingerprinting Is Helping Solve Unidentified Person Cases In 2025 alone, nearly 500,000 missing person records were entered into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center. But even when someone is found, the challenge of determining who they are remains. Without reliable identification or the
Advancing Touchless Fingerprint Technology: What’s next for NIST FastCAP For years, fingerprint capture has depended on specialized scanners and physical contact with a device. Touchless fingerprint technology is changing where and how fingerprints can be captured, bringing the process to commercial mobile devices as well as expanding its potential use
Whether an AFIS identifies anyone depends on how it is deployed. In a criminal investigation it returns a ranked list of candidates and a trained examiner decides. In a civil identification programme it applies a score threshold and can reach the decision on its own. That distinction explains most of
For twenty years, a six-digit code sent by text message was how the world proved identity online. That period is ending, and not because the industry decided to move on. Regulators decided for it. The United Arab Emirates set the hardest deadline: licensed financial institutions had to be off SMS
Most liveness detection vendors will show you the same demo. A phone, a face, a green checkmark. That tells you almost nothing about how the system behaves when someone actually tries to break it. This guide gives you a framework to evaluate liveness detection software on the things that separate
Mule accounts pass KYC. That is the whole problem. A money mule account is opened with a real name, a real document and a real face. Every check the onboarding flow was designed to run comes back clean, because nothing about the identity is false. The fraud is not in
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