Blog Post Archives - Page 20 of 28

German Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media approves Veriff for age verification

Posted on July 7, 2021 (November 3, 2025) by agustina.bustinduy@veriff.net

The Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media, “Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz” (KJM), has given positive assessment ratings to Veriff’s technology for age verification system (AVSs) in telemedia. The concept presented is an overall solution which enables identification by means of an automated process involving the comparison of biometric data. Veriff provides online identity verification services on

Proposed Privacy Changes in the US – California & Virginia Perspective

Posted on June 28, 2021 (November 10, 2025) by agustina.bustinduy@veriff.net

On November 3, 2020, Californians passed a ballot initiative to enact the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) of 2020. The CPRA amends and expands the California Consumer Privacy Act, known as CCPA. The CPRA’s obligations imposed on businesses become operative on January 1, 2023, and enforcement can begin on July 1, 2023. With the exception

Veriff releases Anti-Money Laundering Product to Offer Complete Compliance

Posted on June 3, 2021 (November 3, 2025) by agustina.bustinduy@veriff.net

If your business works with money, in any way, then our new product is here to help you stay safe. Today Veriff is launching our new Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Politically Exposed Person (PEP) and Sanctions Product, providing our clients with an extended suite of tools to help them comply with anti-money laundering regulations. Identity verification, Politically

What is Authentication? – A Complete Guide

Posted on May 25, 2021 (November 10, 2025) by agustina.bustinduy@veriff.net

Simply put, authentication is the procedure of recognizing a user’s identity. It runs at the start of an application and validates users to make sure that they fulfil every security requirement. Different systems require different credentials to confirm an identity. This credential is often a password, but it can also be other forms of authentication,

A Practical Guide to Going Data-Driven

Posted on May 24, 2021 (November 10, 2025) by agustina.bustinduy@veriff.net

It’s no secret that organizations across the globe are eager to harness data. It’s also no secret that most organizations do a very poor job of it. It’s an uphill battle with a multitude of challenges, both technical and operational. Some of the technical challenges include building a platform that can handle a large number

How Veriff Shares GPUs – A technical guide

Posted on May 24, 2021 (November 10, 2025) by agustina.bustinduy@veriff.net

Due to the ever increasing importance of AI in our stack, we are extensively using graphics processing units (GPUs) in Kubernetes to run various machine learning (ML) workloads. In this blog, I’ll describe how we have been sharing GPUs between pods for the last 2 years to massively reduce our infrastructure cost. NVIDIA GPU usage

The Role of Technical Support in Veriff

Posted on May 24, 2021 (November 10, 2025) by agustina.bustinduy@veriff.net

This article will not be filled with code snippets, or awesome logic around how to optimise, or examples of how we built and customised the hell out of Kubernetes for GPU sharing. Instead, I’ll shed some light on the role in Veriff we call Technical Support. The job title is quite straight forward. Technical support

What’s New – March & April 2021: Veriff’s Product Update

Posted on May 18, 2021 (November 10, 2025) by agustina.bustinduy@veriff.net

Look, we know it’s been a while since we’ve published an update about the Veriff product. But it’s not like we haven’t been busy. In case you missed it: On top of all of that though, we’ve got two big updates to share about the data extraction in our verification flow and how it keeps

Veriff’s Fraud Findings – January to March 2021

Posted on May 10, 2021 (November 10, 2025) by agustina.bustinduy@veriff.net

Illustration of a person using technology

Last December, we published our Veriff Fraud Report, which looked at the rates of online identity fraud which we’d observed throughout 2020. This focused on the three major industries we’re currently supporting – crypto, fintech, and mobility. We also categorised the identity fraud we witnessed into four major types: Not too surprisingly, there were spikes in online identity fraud

A New Way to Get Verification Decisions – Straight to Your Email!

Posted on April 22, 2021 (November 10, 2025) by agustina.bustinduy@veriff.net

When you’re on the hunt for a verification provider, you’ll get the opportunity to test out a few of the ones you like. You’ll put them through their paces, and see how they shape up against your expectations. But this makes it sound like a remarkably easy process – and it isn’t always the case.