Verify Faces – the world’s first publicly available background-check database to enable the use of facial recognition – has launched its consumer edition in the US.
According to the company, the service can help people to make more informed decisions about others they may engage with through dating, socially, working or otherwise and is the first consumer service that enables anyone to identify someone with just a photo.
Verify determines if someone is who they say they are by providing a person’s civil court records, birthdate, address and phone number history and the last two numbers of someone’s social security number. The cost is $5 per search.
The data the company uses for its reports 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 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.”
The company highlights that 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 its pulls it from.
Verify also says it is 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.