Developed in South Africa, the WhoYou app has launched on Android and Windows, and the company promises that an iOS app is in “advanced development” and will be released soon.
WhoYou compares the photos of a person’s two thumbprints to the National Population Register (NPR), which is maintained by the Department of Home Affairs. It then returns a confirmation of the person’s identity details, along with their photo.
It aims to play a significant role in curbing identity fraud in South Africa by offering individuals and any business — not just banks and network operators — the ability to verify a person’s identity.
Not sure how they got this right but I do know that SA’s Home Affairs offers a paid API for financial institutions for online ID verification for FICA registrations for a fee. But good to see functionality expanding from Home Affairs (who has also been slowly rolling out online applications for IDs and passports). All these help improve the security for small businesses who need to protect themselves from fraudsters.
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#^WhoYou — Verify the identity of South Africans from your smartphone
Fides Cloud Technologies has launched WhoYou, an application that lets individuals and businesses verify the identity of any South African resident using photographs of their fingerprints.