The challenge of identity in the digital age – Robin Tombs, CEO, Yoti

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Robin Tombs, co-founder and CEO of Yoti, discusses why the road to fully implementing digital ID into society is a long and challenging one, how social media companies can avoid onboarding underage users and the great challenge to identity posed by the rise of deepfake technology.

Tombs co-founded Yoti – which develops age verification and digital ID technology – in 2014 after working in the online gambling space. Tombs saw the difficulty in verifying ages and identities and sought to develop capable of doing so. Yoti works with partners including Meta and Sony to detect user ages and supplies users with a digital card that it hopes will hold the same weight as physical IDs.

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0:00.0	There are people who think, you know, oh, this is facial recognition mistakenly,
0:09.8	and all of that information will be hoovered up by companies like Yote and used for, you know,
0:17.5	nefarious purposes.
0:21.5	It's a little bit unclear whether the government will allow government-certified,
0:28.1	reusable IDs created in the private sector to be able to be used by citizens.
0:39.3	We've known for quite some time that deepfakes were going to become a big problem, both video and audio deepfakes.
0:47.3	But obviously one of the things people would do would be to try and create a deep fake video where they are in a meeting.
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1:29.0	Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shapers of the UK
1:34.6	tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related. I am your host, Jane
1:40.4	Wakefield, and joining me this week is Robin Toombs, the founder and CEO of digital
1:45.1	ID firm Yotei. Welcome, Robin. Hi, Jane. Nice to meet you. Now, let's start off by kind of explaining
1:51.5	a little bit about what it is Yote does and give me some of the sort of top use cases for digital
1:56.9	ID in the UK. So Yote is a digital identity company that makes it safer for people to prove who they are
2:05.6	or to prove how old they are.
2:07.6	And there's lots and lots of examples where people need to do that online or face-to-face.
2:14.6	So you might need to do that in a shop if you're under the age of 25 and you
2:18.9	need to prove that you're over 18 or you might need to do it online if you're on a social media
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