Digital ID verification is a war on identity theft
According to Symantec’s 2019 Internet Security Threat Report, identities are now the key target for hackers and criminals. To decrease fraud and combat identity theft, companies and websites are gradually using real-time identity verification to verify that their clients truly are who they claim to be. In short, identity verification is increasingly obligatory at a time when identity theft is a top mark for criminals.
Where mice play, the cats are always there to swat them down, and digital ID verification systems are also on the front line of this war. In a world where government identity documents are traded on the dark web, the novel identity-verification-technology-based approach of bringing a physical person into the identification process saves us from criminals using stolen identity documents to pledge fraud in our names.
The war on identity theft has become a defining battleground in the ever-expanding digital...