eID-Me Identity Verification Solutions

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eID-Me Benefits

Know who your customers are by verifying name, age, address, and more, remotely or in person.

A smartphone with a face scan in front of an ID card.

Prevent identity fraud with strong identity verification and authentication.

A phone with an ID photo, ID card, and checkmark.

Comply with AML KYC, IALs, and other regulations and frameworks.

Scan passports, driver's licences, and other ID cards. Shorten forms and prevent typos.

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Make onboarding fast and easy with identity verification results in seconds.

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Onboard more customers quicker and reduce customer abandonment.

Two Ways to Verify Identity

Mobile app scanning a driver's licence and taking a live selfie.

Embedded ID Verification

Users take a live selfie and scan ID documents directly in your app.

Advantages

Seamless branding experience.
Everything is done in your app.

Sending verified identity information, such as name and address, to a website from a mobile app.

Digital ID Platform

Users share verified ID information from their eID-Me Digital ID app.

Advantages

Faster, easier integration.
Existing eID-Me users are instantly verified for your business.
New eID-Me users can access multiple services by scanning ID cards and taking a live selfie once.

What Makes eID-Me Different

Better Usability and Convenience

Users take a selfie and scan ID documents once to get a reusable digital ID that provides instant identity verification for multiple businesses. (Or you can embed selfie verification and ID scan in your app.)

Works online (remotely) and offline (in person) with a streamlined mobile experience.

Standard protocols and dedicated support enable easy integration into your website, application, kiosk, or custom system.

Woman taking a live selfie photo with her phone.

Scanning a driver's licence ID card with a mobile phone.

Stronger Fraud Prevention and Security

All identities are automatically verified with ID scanning, authentication, selfie with liveness detection, and geolocation.

Hardware security modules (FIPS 140 Level 3 HSMs) protect identity verifications from tampering and attack.

Identity information is decentralized offline in a mobile digital wallet, protected with encryption and the phone’s hardware-backed security.

Public key authentication and digital certificates provide strong authentication of your customers.

Better Canadian Coverage

Supports a wide variety of ID documents, including Canadian Passport, provincial and territorial driver’s licences, ID photo cards, and more.

Provides compliance with FINTRAC AML KYC, Identity Assurance Levels (IALs), the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF), and more.

Canadian Protected B servers process identity verifications. Once verified, information is deleted from the server.

Made in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Mobile app that shows 'Success' for the following ID checks: 'Biometric Average', 'User at Home', 'Personal Information', 'Third Party Verification'.

How eID-Me Works

Watch how eID-Me verifies identity remotely by taking a live selfie and scanning identity documents on a smartphone.

Once verified, users can share verified identity information with your business from their eID-Me Digital ID mobile app.

eID-Me Compliance and Standards

eID-Me was evaluated in a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) by the Digital ID Laboratory of Canada (request our PIA here).
Complies with AML KYC (anti-money laundering know your client) requirements outlined by FINTRAC (Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada).
Complies with the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF) outlined by DIACC (Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada).
Complies with Identity Assurance Levels (IALs) outlined by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.

Canadian Protected B servers process identity verifications in accordance with Government of Canada security standards.
FIPS Level 3 hardware security modules (HSMs) protect identity verifications from tampering and attack.
Public key infrastructure (PKI) and X.509 v3 digital certificates provide strong authentication to prevent identity theft and fraud.
AES-256 (Advanced Encryption Standard) protects information at rest and in transit.

TLS 1.2 (Transport Layer Security) secures all server-device communications.
Conforms to the mobile driver’s licence (mDL) standard, AAMVA ISO 18013-5, for better integration, adoption, and durability.
Conforms to the ePassport standard (ICAO eMRTD (electronic machine readable travel documents)) for better integration, adoption, and durability.
SAML and OpenID Connect identity federation standards make ID requests and single sign-on integration easy and secure.

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Other eID-Me Features

ID document scanning, including Canadian and US passports, provincial and territorial driver’s licences, ID photo cards, and health cards.
Verification and digitization of ID information, including name, birthdate, age, address, document numbers, and expiry dates.
Active passport validation via NFC chip increases the authenticity and assurance of identity verification.

Liveness detection, 3D face detection, and gesture AI increase the accuracy of biometric comparison between the selfie and ID photo, preventing identity fraud.
Optical character recognition (OCR), logo and blur detection, and PDF417 conversion increase the speed and accuracy of ID document scanning.

Local smartphone authentication (e.g., biometric face/fingerprint scan) secures access to the eID-Me app and encrypted information.
Smartphone hardware security mechanisms (Secure Element, Trusted Execution Environment, Secure Enclave) protect keys, cryptographic operations, and information.