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Cognito
Company blog · blog.cognitohq.comsecurityweb
Cognito is the company blog at blog.cognitohq.com, writing about security and web. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Linked in an Ask HN thread on verifying online identity for customers in the developing world. The post covers documentary identity verification, such as checking passports, and the vendor Jumio.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Learn more about what’s new at Cognito, and what’s new in the world of identity verification, risk management, and compliance regulations.
What Hacker News says?
The only broad way to do this is to verify identity documents, usually passports. The industry term is documentary verification. Jumio is one company that has been in this business for awhile. If you have checked in for an international flight at a kiosk by scanning your passport, you were verified by Jumio. If you put your passport to a webcam to verify your Airbnb profile, it was Jumio. Here are more details about…
Comment linking /documentary-and-non-documentary-id-verification
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