Identity Verification
What is Identity Verification?
The process of confirming that an individual's claimed identity matches their actual identity through document checks, biometric comparison, or other methods.
Terms that appear alongside identity verification
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as identity verification. The number is how many controls name both.
- profiling 14 shared controls
- consent 14 shared controls
- data subject 14 shared controls
- gdpr 14 shared controls
- data subject rights 13 shared controls
- right to object 10 shared controls
- data portability 10 shared controls
- automated decision making 9 shared controls
Frameworks that govern identity verification
What the standards actually require on identity verification
Requirements naming identity verification across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Businesses must establish, document, and comply with reasonable methods to verify the consumer is the person about whom the PI was collected.
CCR §7060 · Consumer Identity Verification →Provides an information gateway enabling public authorities to share information with registered DVS providers to support identity verification, subject to safeguards.
DUAA-P2-GATEWAY · Information gateway for identity verification →Customer identity must be verified using reliable and independent documentation or electronic data sources before providing designated services.
AMLCTF-35 · Identity Verification Standard →Healthcare recipients are registered and their identity verified before access to their My Health Record is provided (Part 3 Div 1).
MYHR-REG-2 · Healthcare recipient registration and identity verification →Banks must have risk-based procedures for verifying the identity of each customer within a reasonable time after account opening, using documents, non-documentary methods, or a combination (31 CFR 1020.220(a)(2)).
BSA-CIP-2 · Identity Verification →Identification and Authentication (non-organizational Users) | Acceptance of PIV Credentials from Other Agencies. Accept and electronically verify Personal Identity Verification-compliant credentials from other federal agencies
IA-8(1) · Identification and Authentication (non-organizational Users) | Acceptance of PIV Credentials from Other Agencies. Accept and electronically verify Personal Identity Verification-compliant credentials from other federal agencies →Questions people ask about identity verification
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