TORONTO — While still not able to operate as a wireless service provider in Canada, MVNO hopeful dotmobile continues to develop its mobile app, announcing today biometric authentication will be incorporated into the app thanks to a partnership with Toronto- and Silicon Valley-based LoginID.
Future research and development driven by this partnership will also focus on the tokenization and management of personal information, says the news release.
“Simple and secure architecture that respects privacy is at the core of our application design. Our partnership with LoginID will allow our members to add extra protection to their personal information, or strong authentication requirements for certain areas of the application. We are working to bring this extra level of control and security to the current application all the way through to future versions that will support wireless service,” said Algis Akstinas, CEO of dotmobile in the news release.
“The future wireless service providers will be mobile-first and digital-first. LoginID’s FIDO2 certified solution securely invokes existing biometrics saved on the user’s device and can be flexibly added to the application to verify the intended user during login, when accessing personal information, or before taking irreversible actions,” added Simon Law, CEO of LoginID.
In June, dotmobile made public the first alpha release of its app. For more information about dotmobile, please click here.
