Toppan Printing Develops "Identity Verification App" that Enables Identity Verification Simply by Holding Your My Number Card Over Your Smartphone

　Toppan Printing has developed an "identity verification app" that enables easy, accurate, and speedy non-face-to-face identity verification with just a smartphone and My Number card. Available from May 1, 2021.

　The app works with the public personal authentication system provided by the Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems (J-LIS) and uses My Number cards to perform identity verification. Specifically, it can be used for identity verification, which is necessary when using various non-face-to-face services such as financial institution transactions such as bank account and credit card applications, secondhand dealers, and sharing businesses.

　The service user uses the NFC installed in the smartphone and holds up the My Number card to the company's JPKI platform (provided as a business approved by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, public personal authentication using the My Number card is possible. platform), it is possible to perform identity verification easily and quickly. In addition, service providers can reduce the work of verifying personal identification documents, aiming to significantly reduce their workload.

　In the past, face-to-face procedures involving identity verification documents were required for administrative procedures, opening bank and securities accounts, and verifying identity when issuing credit cards. In addition, non-face-to-face identity verification (eKYC), which has become popular in recent years, requires sending a photo of your face (selfie image) and an image of your identity verification document. For the company, the collation and inspection work by the administrative department is a burden.

In addition, due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, while the need for non-face-to-face procedures is increasing in various industries, problems due to unauthorized use and impersonation are beginning to emerge. is required.

　The company has been certified by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications as a platform operator for authentication services since March 2017, and has provided an electronic contract procedure service for home loans using public personal authentication. Among them, in view of the recent increase in the number of My Number cards issued and the new normal way of life due to the new coronavirus, we will start providing microservices specializing in identity verification. As a result, it will be possible to easily and reliably perform non-face-to-face identity verification with just a smartphone and My Number card, and it will be possible to provide a service that performs accurate identity verification regardless of industry.

　The features of the "identity verification app" are as follows.

Can be used not only from apps, but also from web browsers on PCs and smartphones

Since the service can be called up smoothly from web browsers on PCs and smartphones, existing services owned by service providers It is possible to add an identity verification function to our web service and smartphone application.

The UI design of the app can be flexibly customized

　It is possible to customize the UI design by reflecting the corporate color of the company that introduced the service. As a result, it is possible to provide the same service with a UI design that is compatible with the application design provided by the introducing company.

By providing a dedicated SDK, it is possible to use it as an add-on to the operator's application

　Since we have an SDK for smartphones (for iOS/Android), service providers can already You can implement the functions of this service in your own application. Since the user can complete the service procedure without switching apps, it is possible to perform identity verification using public personal authentication without compromising UX.

Provision of functions according to various uses

With this app, you can use only public personal authentication using the electronic certificate for user authentication and the electronic certificate for signature included in the My Number card. It is also possible to obtain the basic 4 information (name, date of birth, gender, and address included in the My Number Card) and personal number. Therefore, the app can be used for purposes such as labor management and tax processing, such as collecting employee personal numbers and collecting personal numbers when claiming insurance claims. The company will provide appropriate services according to the usage scene of the service provider.

　The company will promote the provision of this service to various industries that develop financial transactions, public services, and CtoC business. In addition, we will provide a platform service that links identity verification results and personal IDs.