Jumio, the California-based mobile payments and identity verification firm, has made its remote user verification service ‘Jumio Go’ free for some of America’s hardest hit sectors amid the coronavirus pandemic. Organisations “involved in helping students, patients and vulnerable populations” can apply. The artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool was designed to help organisations weed out bots and verify all their online users as real people, whilst at the same time complying with anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulations. But the emergence of a global pandemic has seen new forms of fraud jump. Last week, The Verge reported a phone…
Jumio helps US sectors battling coronavirus verify users for free