Tru.ly launches free verification API

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Identify verification via Facebook? That doesn't instill much trust.

Where does the authoritative information come from for "Enterprise" and "Whitelabel"?

We're only using Facebook to pre-fill fields so that users don't need to manually enter their first name, last name, birthday.

All three "levels" use the same dataset to verify the information. We use a third party provider that provides a look up service against a mix of credit and government issue data.

Would love any additional feedback!

This wasn't clear to me at all from what I saw. I assumed it was just trusting Facebook's data.

Thanks for the feedback. Updated the copy to make that a bit more clear.

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