Facenition lets organisations verify people using face, fingerprint and iris — without creating biometric databases or holding sensitive biometric data. Strong identity assurance, with nothing for an attacker to steal.
Organisations need confidence that a person is who they claim to be. But traditional biometric systems require storing highly sensitive personal information — information that can never be changed if it is ever compromised. Facenition removes that trade-off, enabling biometric verification without retaining biometric data.
Facenition enables identity verification while minimising the information organisations must collect, store and protect — because the person generates and owns the token, and decides how it's used. The result feels familiar to your users, and removes the liability you'd normally carry.
Using their face, fingerprint or iris, the person generates a privacy-preserving identity token — and they own it. The biometric is never stored.
The token is theirs to control: add a password, set an expiry date, or issue it to one specific organisation — rather than a single token used everywhere.
Whoever the user shares a token with keeps that token and nothing else. There's no biometric database to secure, govern or worry about.
Next time, a live reading reproduces the same token on the user's device, and it's matched against the one on file — no biometric storage, ever.
Facenition was designed to minimise the amount of sensitive information organisations need to hold, while maintaining strong identity assurance. The workflow is deliberately simple.
Wherever an organisation needs to confirm who someone is — and would rather not hold their biometrics to do it — Facenition fits cleanly into the flow.
Verify citizens with confidence while dramatically reducing the sensitive data your agency has to collect, secure and answer for.
Identify returning patients accurately — without ever building a biometric database of the people you care for.
Stronger identity verification for onboarding and high-value actions, with far less privacy risk on your balance sheet.
Authenticate employees for physical or system access without enrolling them into a biometric record you then have to protect.
Give users a smooth, passwordless experience — without taking on the liability of storing their biometrics.
Enable portable, user-controlled identity that travels with the person — not locked inside any single platform.
Offer privacy-first access to public services, so people can prove who they are without surrendering their biometrics.
Trusted, verifiable identity checks with a clean audit trail — and far less sensitive data to govern and disclose.
Allow identity to be verified across vendors and systems — without any party ever sharing or holding biometric data.
Passwords are weak and resettable. Traditional biometric systems are strong but store data that can never be reset. Facenition is the only approach that combines strong identity verification with a privacy-first architecture.
| Passwords | Traditional biometric systems | Facenition | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stores biometric data | n/a | Yes — indefinitely | Never |
| Exposure in a breach | Resettable | Permanent & irreversible | Nothing to expose |
| User control over identity | — | — | ✓ |
| Compliance burden | Moderate | Heavy | Minimised |
| Cross-platform identity | — | — | ✓ |
| Revocable identity tokens | Reset | — | ✓ |
| Vendor independence | Partial | — | ✓ |
| Privacy-first design | — | — | ✓ |
The safest biometric database is the one that does not exist. We help organisations verify people without ever building one.
Identity should belong to individuals, not to the platforms and institutions they interact with.
People should decide how and where their identity tokens are used — and be able to limit, separate or revoke them at any time.
Identity should work across organisations and providers, not stay locked inside a single vendor's walls.
Strong verification should never require excessive data collection. Confidence and privacy can coexist — and should.
Most identity systems put the platform — or the government — in charge of who you are. Facenition flips that. Because identity tokens are generated on demand and never tied to a stored biometric, the person decides how their identity is created, separated, shared and switched off. This is the difference between being verified and being owned.
People can generate as many identity tokens as they need — one per service, or one per purpose — all from the same person, none linkable back to a biometric.
Keep identities for different organisations cleanly separated, so a token used with one vendor reveals nothing about activity with another.
Set tokens to expire after a defined period, so access naturally winds down instead of lingering indefinitely.
Revoke a token instantly, anywhere it's been issued — cutting off access without re-enrolment or touching a biometric.
Identity isn't trapped inside one provider. Tokens work across vendors and systems, so users are never locked in.
The person — not the platform — decides what their identity is used for. Privacy becomes a default, not a setting buried in a policy.
Facenition is designed to support modern privacy and compliance objectives through data minimisation and privacy-by-design principles. By holding far less sensitive information, organisations reduce their exposure and make governance simpler across every framework.
When there is no biometric database, there is far less for an attacker — or an auditor — to find. Reduced data means reduced risk.
Organisations collect and retain only an identity token, in line with the data-minimisation expectations at the heart of modern privacy law.
Privacy is built into the architecture rather than bolted on, supporting frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA/CPRA and BIPA.
Fewer sensitive records to classify, secure, disclose and delete — making audits, reporting and oversight more straightforward.
Facenition reimagines identity around a simple idea: people should be able to prove who they are without handing over their biometrics — and without any platform or government owning their identity. It's a shift toward privacy-first verification, user ownership, and identity that works across organisations. Our ambition is for it to become a standard governments and institutions adopt.
See where it fits →Deploy privacy-first biometric verification without building a biometric database. Let's talk about where Facenition fits in your organisation.