{"id":536437,"date":"2026-04-17T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536437\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:50:07","slug":"tinder-and-zoom-offer-proof-of-humanity-eye-scans-to-combat-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536437\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinder and Zoom offer &#8216;proof of humanity&#8217; eye-scans to combat AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Romance scams saw people in the US lose more than $1bn last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Late last year, Tinder began requiring all users to submit a video selfie in order to confirm they were real people. The integration with World ID will be an additional way people can be verified on the app if they choose to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yoel Roth, who leads trust and safety at Match Group, the owner of Tinder, said &#8220;Partnering with World ID is a natural next step&#8221; for the platform to help users &#8220;know the person on the other end is real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zoom, which is widely used for video conferences in work settings, is more concerned with increasingly sophisticated deepfakes of people who may be known to a user.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2024, a worker in Hong Kong was convinced by video deepfakes of his company&#8217;s chief financial officer and several other co-workers to hand over $25m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Research from Deloitte said financial fraud conducted through such deepfake scams could reach $40bn by 2027 in the US alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Someone with a World ID can now has the option to use it on Zoom in order to show they are who they appear to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romance scams saw people in the US lose more than $1bn last year, according to the Federal Trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-536437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}