Digital Identity Friday Five: July 19, 2024
Covering the most interesting news for the week of July 13 to July 19
Today is Friday, July 19. Here are five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week
1/ Incognia and FREENOW Announce Strategic Partnership
Incognia announced a new partnership with FREENOW, a European multi-mobility super app
This partnership is Incognia's debut in Europe and expands its footprint to nearly 190 countries worldwide
Congrats André Ferraz, John Lindner, and the entire Incognia team
More details in their press release, link below 👇
2/ Prove releases developer self-service platform and new SDK
"Through orchestrated APIs and real-time Key Management, the Prove developer self-service platform offers identity protection in every transaction."
In their press release, Prove also announced two new executive hires:
Catherine Porter joined as Chief Business Officer and Eric Lesser joined as Chief Financial Officer
3/ TechCrunch: Deepfake-detecting firm Pindrop lands $100M loan to grow its offerings
Pindrop’s Co-founder & CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan announced a $100M, five-year loan from Hercules Capital that "will enable Pindrop to further develop its cutting-edge audio, voice, and AI technologies, enhancing its offerings for customers"
4/ authID and FinClusive Partner to Integrate Next-Gen Biometric and Financial Crimes Compliance Solutions
"Under this agreement, authID's biometric services will be integrated into FinClusive's Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform to help combat the rapidly escalating threat of financial crimes, identity fraud, malicious, AI-driven deepfakes and other illicit finance, fraud, and related vulnerabilities."
5/ Observer Research Foundation: Deepfakes and potential implications for online identity verification
This last interesting item is an essay written by Anulekha Nandi covering the potential for #deepfakes to undermine trust in online identity verification processes
*** LINKS
PROVE: https://www.prove.com/blog/introducing-prove-link-unlocking-the-power-of-identity-for-any-business
TECHCRUNCH: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/17/deepfake-detecting-firm-pindrop-lands-100m-loan-to-grow-its-offerings/