IDifier

IDifier is a spin-off company that offers an online trustworthy service for proof of Identity online by employing ReCRED’s technologies. IDifier facilitates the following cases.

1. Establish the missing link between a user’s online and real-world identity.

2. IDifier offers soft identity acquisition and verification mechanisms to the users allowing them to verify multiple real-world identity documents (such as international IDs, Passports, Driver licenses, etc.) in a fast, reliable and user-friendly manner. IDifier takes advantage of the trusted paths on the devices in order to securely capture images of a user and his real-world identity documents as well as and his physical characteristics (e.g., location). Crowdsourcing techniques and automated means (such as OCR, Facial recognition, Face detection, etc.) are used to verify the acquired information. All the verified identity information is transformed into independent identity attributes which can then be used for the creation of verifiable profiles. Such profiles can be used to prove several identity attributes without revealing your whole identity and while maintaining your anonymity.

3. IDifier also offers face-to-face (f2f) verification in which a user physically meets with an appropriately trained IDifier auditor and presents his documents for validation. F2f audits, especially from highly reputable auditors who can also be eponymous, carry the heaviest weight when it comes to the credibility of a profile.

4. Provide a trustworthy online identity without sacrificing privacy. IDifier allows Internet users to trade and interact with one another as if they had met in person and exchanged credentials like photo IDs and proof of residence documents. They can use it to: a) send items or money to other people without fear of fallings victims of impersonation scams; b) chat and/or collaborate online with others that are provably who they claim to be; c) use a verified identity for safer real-world meetings with people met online.

5. In addition to the above, IDifier can be used in applications that require anonymity but proven identity attributes (e.g., age). For example, IDifier can be used in any online service that requires age verification allowing a user to prove his age without revealing any other aspect of his identity enabling him to remain anonymous. At the same time the service can verify the age of the user with high certainty.

6. Using the IDifier’s verifiable profiles functionality, a user (e.g., professor) can include a verifiable profile when posting in portals, blog/forums or online tabloids allowing co-editors and a reader to verify the identity of the author and also assess the his reputation and credibility. In this way, IDifier can contribute in tackling the emerging fake news problem and enables co-editors and readers to easily identify whether an article can be categorized as a fake new and whether it has been posted by a bot or by a credible author.

7. For applications that require anonymity, IDifier provides accountability. For example, a malicious Wikipedia editor that takes advantage of anonymity to vandalize a lemma or spread false information can be held accountable for his actions if he has an IDifier account that bounds his pseudonym with his real world name and his email.

IDifier achieves all the above without requiring end-users to jeopardize their privacy by, for example, sending verbatim high quality scans of their photo ID to strangers or revealing their exact address. It provides a systematic solution to all the above problems and replaces the ad hoc, repetitious, and awkward processes used by people today. A user has to create and validate an IDifier profile only once, and he can subsequently use it multiple times with a simple click, as opposed to having to prove his identity to verifiers with each encounter using questionable and time-consuming ways (e.g., sending scans of passport to strangers and calling them on the phone).

IDifier follows security and privacy best practices and its treatment of user’s personal information is fully compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Rgulation (EU) 2016/679).