The Meet Group Teams With Digital Identity Company Yoti to Help Create Safer Communities Online
July 24 2019 - 8:32AM
Business Wire
The Meet Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEET), a leading provider of
interactive live streaming solutions, and Yoti, a digital identity
company, today announced that The Meet Group plans to trial Yoti’s
innovative age verification and age estimation technologies
designed to create safer communities online.
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The Meet Group, with more than 15 million monthly active users,
helps people to find connection and community through its social
networking and dating apps. As a company committed to the
protection of its users, The Meet Group devotes approximately half
of its workforce to safety and moderation, and continuously reviews
its safety procedures with the goal of meeting the highest
standards of online safety and security.
The relationship allows Yoti to enhance The Meet Group’s strong
existing safety measures, letting users verify their age with
Yoti’s age estimation technology Yoti Age Scan, or the free Yoti
app where a date of birth is verified to a government issued photo
ID. Yoti’s technology can help moderators at The Meet Group ensure
that minors do not create accounts.
Geoff Cook CEO at The Meet Group commented, “A key part
of helping people to create meaningful connections is to keep them
safe online. We have already committed ourselves to one-tap report
abuse capability, clear and frequent safety education, and
proactive and transparent moderation, and now with Yoti’s age
verification and estimation technologies, we look forward to being
one of the few app operators in social or dating who can respond to
reports of underage users quickly and accurately. By using Yoti’s
age estimation technology and digital identity app, we believe we
can enhance the safety of our platforms and give users a simple,
private and secure way to verify their age.”
Adam Grayson, US Regional Director at Yoti explained,
“I’m delighted to announce our relationship with The Meet Group,
which demonstrates its ongoing commitment and leadership to
proactive safety measures and the protection of its members. Yoti
Age Scan can estimate someone's age with a high degree of accuracy
and privacy, and the free Yoti app gives people the chance to
verify their age in a simple and secure way - creating more
transparency online and helping to ensure that only those of the
right age are accessing online platforms and creating accounts. Our
work with The Meet Group shows how Yoti’s technology can help make
the internet a safer place, which is particularly important when
connecting with new people.”
Yoti’s technology is private and secure; letting individuals
verify their age without sharing any other personal information.
This data minimisation approach protects an individual’s privacy
and identity, and provides a blueprint for safer, simpler user
experiences. Yoti has been designed in such a way that individuals
aren't tracked - only the individual can access their personal
data.
The Meet Group expects to trial Yoti’s technology on the MeetMe
app this year.
For more information about Yoti go to www.yoti.com or read the
Yoti Age Scan white paper.
About The Meet Group
The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET) is a leading provider of
interactive livestreaming solutions designed to meet the universal
need for human connection. Our ecosystem of livestreaming apps
enables users around the world to interact through one-to-many
livestreaming broadcasts and text-based conversations. Our top
apps, MeetMe®, LOVOO®, Skout®, Tagged® and Growlr®, deliver live
interactions and meaningful connections to millions of users daily.
Headquartered in New Hope, PA, we have offices in Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Dresden, and Berlin. The Meet Group is committed to
safety. You can find a description of current safety practices
here. For more information visit themeetgroup.com, and follow us on
Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.
About Yoti
Founded in 2014, Yoti is a global technology company on a
mission to become the world’s trusted identity platform. Our free
digital identity app, with over 4.6 million downloads, is the new,
safer way to prove your age online, check out faster with
age-restricted items at supermarkets and save time and money
proving your identity to businesses. It brings safer connections
with the people you meet online as well as enabling secure website
login with your biometrics instead of remembering passwords. All
personal details are secured with 256-bit encryption and Yoti
promotes a data minimisation approach. For more information, visit
www.yoti.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release made by The Meet Group,
Inc. are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including whether
we will trial Yoti’s technologies as expected; whether Yoti’s
technologies will make our online communities safer and help our
moderators ensure that minors do not create accounts; whether we
will be one of the few app operators in social or dating who can
respond to reports of underage users quickly and accurately; and
whether we will by using Yoti’s age estimation technology and
digital identity app we will enhance the safety of our platforms
and give users a simple, private and secure way to verify their
age. All statements other than statements of historical facts
contained herein are forward-looking statements. The words
“believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,”
“should,” “plan,” “could,” “target,” “potential,” “project,”
“outlook,” “is likely,” “expect” and similar expressions, as they
relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Further information on our risk factors is contained in our filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 filed with the SEC
on March 8, 2019. Any forward-looking statement made by us herein
speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events
that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time
to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We
undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of new information, future
developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
Notes to editors:
- Using a form of Artificial Intelligence called neural network
learning, Yoti Age Scan is a secure, anonymous age checking service
that accurately estimates a person’s age by comparing an
individual’s face to many thousands of other age verified
faces.
- Yoti Age Scan is a private and anonymous solution. There is no
need for individuals to register in advance or provide any
documents as evidence of their identity. It simply estimates their
age. The image is instantly destroyed as soon as the age has been
estimated, meaning Yoti Age Scan ‘always forgets a face’.
- You can find out more about Yoti Age Scan by downloading the
white paper here.
- Yoti Age Scan can accurately estimate the age of millions of
people in a private and secure way. It is a scalable solution which
is quicker, more practical and more accurate than age assessments
made by individuals, and can be used when providing age restricted
goods and services, both online and in person.
- Yoti have signed the Safe Face Pledge signature, which
encourages companies using artificial intelligence to ensure that
facial recognition technology is not misused.
- When MeetMe users verify their age using the Yoti app, they
will only be asked to share an 18+ attribute to protect their
privacy.
- Yoti is also working with social networking app Yubo who are
using Yoti’s age estimation technology, Yoti Age Scan, and the Yoti
app to help protect their community of users, as part of their
safeguarding and safety measures.
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Media contact: Brandyn Bissinger -
bbissinger@themeetgroup.com Rachael Trotman -
rachael.trotman@yoti.com
Investor contact: Leslie Arena -
larena@themeetgroup.com
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