Social Dining App "LYMiN" Adopts Online Identity Verification Service "LIQUID eKYC" and Passive Facial Recognition Option
Howtelevision's social dining app "LYMiN" has adopted Liquid's online identity verification service "LIQUID eKYC" and its passive facial recognition option. This enables highly accurate identity verification without user burden, strengthening the app's secure community.
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Howtelevision Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Yosuke Otonari) announces that its fully vetted social dining service "LYMiN from Gaishi Shūkatsu Dot Com" (hereinafter "LYMiN") has adopted the online identity verification service "LIQUID eKYC" and the passive facial recognition option (Note 1) provided by Liquid Inc., a member of the ELEMENTS Group (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Takaki Hasegawa).
LYMiN will introduce LIQUID eKYC's "He-method" (Note 2) and the "Passive Facial Recognition Option" (Note 3) to build a safe and secure community for the LYMiN app based on accurate profile information. By implementing this service, identity verification combining IC chip reading of public certificates and facial photography will enable accurate age information registration for users. Furthermore, by performing facial photography with passive judgment, it prevents deepfake attacks and other breakthrough methods that occur with active judgment (Note 4), without burdening users. In conjunction, the "IC Omakase Pack," which guides the user environment to the optimal flow through AI automatic judgment, has also been introduced, realizing a smooth UI/UX during registration.
"LIQUID eKYC" is an online identity verification service required for contracts, account registrations, and account openings online. It offers methods such as photographing identity verification documents like driver's licenses and My Number Cards, or reading IC chips, and matching them with a selfie, as well as methods utilizing public personal authentication (JPKI / Smartphone JPKI), and can also handle age verification for student discounts. Through its unique AI technology, biometric authentication technology, and OCR technology, it achieves a low dropout rate from the start to the completion of photography. The ELEMENTS Group has collectively surpassed approximately 150 million identity verification cases and over 600 cumulative contracts.
About LIQUID eKYC: https://liquidinc.asia/liquid-ekyc/
About Public Personal Authentication: https://liquidinc.asia/jpki/
About "IC Omakase Pack": https://liquidinc.asia/2024-08-27/
Note 1: "LIQUID eKYC" equipped with a new judgment function to prevent impersonation during facial authentication (May 31, 2023) https://liquidinc.asia/2023-05-31/
Note 2: A method compliant with Article 6, Paragraph 1, Item 1, Sub-item He of the Enforcement Regulations of the Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds.
Note 3: A function performed solely from a frontal facial image taken by the end-user. No additional actions are required, and it verifies the authenticity of whether the person is taking their own facial image in real-time. Since the end-user does not need to perform actions such as head movements, it does not provide hints for attackers to decipher the judgment content, reducing user burden while strengthening fraud prevention.
Note 4: Judging whether an image received from an end-user was taken at the time of identity verification, rather than being a pre-taken photo, by actions such as head movements or blinking performed by the end-user.
■ Company Overview (Howtelevision Inc.)
Company Name: Howtelevision Inc.
Representative: Yosuke Otonari, Representative Director
Location: Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 28F, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6128
Established: February 9, 2010
Business Activities: Platform operation business
Operating Services: Gaishi Shūkatsu Dot Com, Gaishi Shūkatsu Next, mond, Loglio, LYMiN from Gaishi Shūkatsu Dot Com
Company Name: Liquid Inc.
Representative: Takaki Hasegawa, Representative Director and President
Location: Nihonbashi Life Science Building 3, 5F, 3-8-3 Nihonbashi Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023
Established: December 2013
Business Activities: Development and provision of personal authentication solutions utilizing biometric authentication, image analysis, and machine learning technologies; personal optimization solutions for clothing, food, and housing; and cloud services for managing personal information.
LYMiN will introduce LIQUID eKYC's "He-method" (Note 2) and the "Passive Facial Recognition Option" (Note 3) to build a safe and secure community for the LYMiN app based on accurate profile information. By implementing this service, identity verification combining IC chip reading of public certificates and facial photography will enable accurate age information registration for users. Furthermore, by performing facial photography with passive judgment, it prevents deepfake attacks and other breakthrough methods that occur with active judgment (Note 4), without burdening users. In conjunction, the "IC Omakase Pack," which guides the user environment to the optimal flow through AI automatic judgment, has also been introduced, realizing a smooth UI/UX during registration.
"LIQUID eKYC" is an online identity verification service required for contracts, account registrations, and account openings online. It offers methods such as photographing identity verification documents like driver's licenses and My Number Cards, or reading IC chips, and matching them with a selfie, as well as methods utilizing public personal authentication (JPKI / Smartphone JPKI), and can also handle age verification for student discounts. Through its unique AI technology, biometric authentication technology, and OCR technology, it achieves a low dropout rate from the start to the completion of photography. The ELEMENTS Group has collectively surpassed approximately 150 million identity verification cases and over 600 cumulative contracts.
About LIQUID eKYC: https://liquidinc.asia/liquid-ekyc/
About Public Personal Authentication: https://liquidinc.asia/jpki/
About "IC Omakase Pack": https://liquidinc.asia/2024-08-27/
Note 1: "LIQUID eKYC" equipped with a new judgment function to prevent impersonation during facial authentication (May 31, 2023) https://liquidinc.asia/2023-05-31/
Note 2: A method compliant with Article 6, Paragraph 1, Item 1, Sub-item He of the Enforcement Regulations of the Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds.
Note 3: A function performed solely from a frontal facial image taken by the end-user. No additional actions are required, and it verifies the authenticity of whether the person is taking their own facial image in real-time. Since the end-user does not need to perform actions such as head movements, it does not provide hints for attackers to decipher the judgment content, reducing user burden while strengthening fraud prevention.
Note 4: Judging whether an image received from an end-user was taken at the time of identity verification, rather than being a pre-taken photo, by actions such as head movements or blinking performed by the end-user.
■ Company Overview (Howtelevision Inc.)
Company Name: Howtelevision Inc.
Representative: Yosuke Otonari, Representative Director
Location: Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 28F, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6128
Established: February 9, 2010
Business Activities: Platform operation business
Operating Services: Gaishi Shūkatsu Dot Com, Gaishi Shūkatsu Next, mond, Loglio, LYMiN from Gaishi Shūkatsu Dot Com
Company Name: Liquid Inc.
Representative: Takaki Hasegawa, Representative Director and President
Location: Nihonbashi Life Science Building 3, 5F, 3-8-3 Nihonbashi Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023
Established: December 2013
Business Activities: Development and provision of personal authentication solutions utilizing biometric authentication, image analysis, and machine learning technologies; personal optimization solutions for clothing, food, and housing; and cloud services for managing personal information.