Adding facial recognition to mobile helps reduce fraud

Doing more of our day to day transactions online increases the risk of falling victim to some kind of fraud. Increasingly therefore companies are turning towards biometrics to ensure users are who they say they are. Digital verification company Jumio is adding biometric facial recognition to its Netverify product to verify users on mobile devices. The use of biometrics aims to reduce fraud within the banking, finance, travel, and online gaming industries by ensuring a user is a live human rather that a photograph. Netverify performs a face match but also completes a 'liveness' check, which takes no more than… [Continue Reading]