Verify Faces – the world’s first publicly available background-check database to enable the use of facial recognition – launched its consumer edition in the U.S. The service helps people make more informed decisions about others they may engage with through dating, socially, working or otherwise. This is first consumer service that enables anyone to identify someone with just their photo. Verify helps determine if someone is who they say they are by providing a person’s civil court records, birthdate, address and phone number history, and social security number validation (last two numbers). The cost is $5 per search, and the first search is free for a limited time.
“Verify is a unique tool and powerful game changer in the world of background check services,” said Michael Doherty, Verify’s president and co-founder. “No one else offers the public the ability to put a name to a face. There are so many useful applications for this service for consumers and businesses.”
SEE & CORRECT YOUR DATA
Anyone can search to see what data is held on them, and request incorrect data be removed from both Verify’s database and from the third-party source Verify pulls it from (at no cost). Verify even provides the necessary forms and guidance about how to request third parties make corrections.
SEARCH FOUR WAYS
Users can conduct a search on www.verifyfaces.com by providing only: a person’s photo or complete name and (birthdate, state or current address) or phone number or address. Verify then presents possible matches within seconds. With a photo search, Verify returns up to 10 pictures and shows the percent likelihood that each photo returned is a match to the photo submitted. It also provides an estimated age for each person when the photo was taken. The user selects the most likely person, and Verify emails the user a report in minutes. With all provided data, Verify includes a link to its source. The facial recognition algorithm Verify deploys is used by border patrol and passport authorities in many Western countries.
SOURCE OF THE DATA
The data Verify gets for its reports is dynamic, meaning it is updated daily and comes from private sources like contracts, memberships, and delivery companies. The data does not come from public data facilities, such as voter registration records; birth, deaths and marriage records; etc. Verify has built an extensive, growing database and also searches tens of millions of websites for photo matches every time someone uses the service.
VERIFY LAUNCHING COMMERCIAL EDITION 2023
When Verify’s commercial edition is released during the first half of 2023, it will offer one of the most comprehensive (and competitively priced) FCRA-accredited background / credit check offerings available. This will include access to one of the world’s largest financial and criminal databases. Verify also plans to launch its consumer and commercial editions in several other countries in 2023.
GAME CHANGER FOR SECURITY & SURVEILLANCE
Verify is also partnering with private, security monitoring integrators to bring facial recognition services to their business clients via CCTV cameras in a wide variety of retail and business settings.
ABOUT VERIFY FACES
Launched late 2022 / early 2023, Verify has been in development since 2018. Led by Australian entrepreneur Michael Doherty, the company identified and utilizes one of the world’s top facial recognition algorithms and one of the U.S.’s top personal information database providers. Verify plans to give back through its Verify Charitable Trust (the Trust). Every month, Verify will fund the Trust with 2.5% of gross sales and free search credits (2.5% of total search volume). The Trust will award cash and Verify Search Credits via grants and/or donations to nonprofits that serve those impacted by identify theft, sex trafficking, wrongful convictions as well as others hurt by bad information and people who use it. To learn more and get two free searches, visit https://verifyfaces.com.
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