Online Trust

The Twitter verification process and real identity issues on social networks has come under scrutiny recently by popular technology news site Digital Trends. 

Earlier this month they reported on the Sarah Phillips scandal, where the real identity of this media personality who was writing for ESPN, as well as assuming various aliases and pulling a series of internet scams, is still unkown.

Paul Makin of Consult Hyperion came to visit miiCard last month and interview CEO James Varga for the Tomorrow's Transactions podcast series.

Trust online is really important to us at miiCard. We are building trust online through identity, proving you are you to the same level as your passport or driving licence, so you can connect safely with others on social networks and dating sites, trade on auction sites with confidence, and buy new products and services, that typically require an offline ID check, entirely online when it's convenient for you.

Some new information has been added to www.miicard.com today which we hope will make it easy for visitors to the site to get a sense of how miiCard's online identity verification works and is used to build trust online.

Here's some pages you might find of interest:

We’re seeing Digital Identity heating up compared to twelve months ago and with Deloitte listing it as their Number #2 tech trend prediction for 2012 we wanted to hear what the experts in Financial Services technology innovation thought about the subject.

Online dating safety is a growing concern with increasing reports of fraud and identity theft occuring through dating sites. Late last year we ran a survey to find out how people put trust in online dating.

Of the couple of hundred that took our survey, half had been involved in online dating for more than six months and 90 per cent were aged between 18 and 35.

An article in The Guardian last Friday