This week’s UKTN Podcast guest is Yoti co-founder and CEO Robin Tombs. In this episode, Tombs discusses why the road to fully implementing digital ID into society is a long and challenging one, how social media companies can avoid onboarding underage users and the great challenge to identity posed by the rise of deepfake technology.
Tombs co-founded Yoti – which develops age verification and digital ID technology – in 2014 after working in the online gambling space.
Tombs saw the difficulty in verifying ages and identities and sought to develop capable of doing so. Yoti works with partners including Meta and Sony to detect user ages and supplies users with a digital card that it hopes will hold the same weight as physical IDs.
The company has raised more than £30m and has become one of just a handful of digital ID providers approved by the UK government.
Yoti backers include HSBC, Lloyds Bank and Future Fifty.
Listen to the full episode here, along with all previous episodes of the UKTN Podcast.
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