In many developed countries, many customers do not need a shop worker for shopping. When the customer himself purchases the required goods, he can go to the automated counter to pay the money. In this case, minors are at risk of buying risky products. Now the risk is going to be far away.
British Startup Yota brings a new facial recognition app. The new start-up app has created this app as a result of agreement with the US-based company, NCR, to provide its own shopping services. This app will be run on trial in two UK supermarkets.
This app can verify the age of customers. This will not allow them to make purchases of non-mineral products such as alcohol and knife, and they will not automatically be allowed to make purchases. In this case human intervention will be needed.
For customers, this app will work with a picture of an institutional document such as a passport and a cellphone.
The photos taken in this case will be encoded and the company has no access to it, Youti said.
In a statement, Yota said that two UK supermarkets have been approved for testing with this ID system since 2018.
To use this app, interested people will need to take a cellphone with their Android or IOS smartphone, verify their phone number and give them an introduction to the identity they are identifying.
This cellphone will be associated with a photo identification document such as app and driving license or passport.
Youth staff will verify the photographs of the document, cellphone and passport or license.
When someone comes to use the app, it will be used to verify the information and identity of the person with Yota. The company's co-founder and chief Robin Tombus said that this technology can be used to identify identity in pubs, nightclubs and dating sites. He also said that it can be used to stop fraud on identity. Tombus said, "It's easy for people to introduce themselves to someone else or to grab all our personal information."