Capture Trust

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.

Capturing Trust: the promise of biometrics for good

It’s happened to all of us. We’re scrolling through our social media feeds and see a funny picture or video, only to find out later that it’s fake. In the age of AI, spoofing people’s faces and voices has become incredibly accessible. With every selfie and video posted, we’re unintentionally contributing to a growing data library for fraudsters to exploit. Fraudsters pull facial and voice biometrics from publicly available content online to create deepfakes and clone voices, meaning identify theft can happen to anyone. The good news? There’s a biometric marker that fraudsters cannot easily steal from social media or other

Your personal ID in a QR code: Biocode solution celebrates its first anniversary

Identity theft continues to be a pressing problem virtually everywhere in the world. Although advances in technology, especially in artificial intelligence, mean that cybercriminals are increasingly perfecting their techniques for committing fraud, the truth is that citizens’ lack of care or supervision in handling and managing their personal information means that it is precisely the victims of fraud who often open the door to these attacks. One of the main advances in the financial sector in terms of user protection has been the widespread adoption of virtual credit and debit cards which, unlike conventional cards, offer an additional layer of security

NIST certifies Identy.io for PFT III: A milestone for touchless mobile biometrics

Identity theft continues to be one of the most common and worrisome frauds in the United States, ranking second in the total number of reported frauds in 2024 with 1,335,291 incidents, according to data from the Federal Trade Commission. Among the most common cases of identity theft are those related to credit cards, including opening new accounts or the fraudulent use of existing accounts (449,032 cases in 2024), loan applications (176,400), or applications for Government documents or benefits (70,332). The main entry pathways (resulting in financial loss) for fraud are social networks at 70%, visiting certain websites or apps with 68%,

Digital wallets as a secure, convenient alternative to traditional personal documentation

Identity fraud and theft are escalating global concerns. Although technological evolution has facilitated the work of cybercriminals, one of the main entry vectors that make identity theft possible is the users’ lack of vigilance in handling personal information, their carelessness or the transfer of personal data to third parties without applying the necessary precautions. Users have already adopted virtual banking cards for e-commerce transactions, enabling precise control over shared information. However, identity verification has remained fragmented—until now. Digital wallets leverage verifiable credentials (VCs) and decentralized identity frameworks to ensure that users can securely prove their identity without exposing unnecessary personal data.

Biometric fingerprint identity control as a global answer to the fraud problem

Over the last few years, fraud has established itself as one of the main problems faced by public and private entities, but also by end users. In the last quarter of 2024 alone, for example, there were losses of more than 500 million dollars due to fraudulent transfers only in the USA, with 100 million dollars of impact due to the improper use of credit and debit cards, as revealed by the consulting firm Stadista. However, this is not a problem that is confined only to the United States. In Mexico, figures also reveal that fraud is already one of the