SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 18, 2025--
Jumio, the leader in AI-powered identity intelligence anchored in biometric authentication, automation and data-driven insights, today announced general availability of Jumio Liveness Premium with advanced deepfake detection, the company’s most advanced biometric liveness detection solution to date.
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Jumio’s premium solution leverages a patented Jumio technology, combining randomized color sequences and AI-driven analysis to confirm human presence in real time, effectively stopping spoofing attacks before they impact businesses. With this release, Jumio adds another layer of security to the recently launched Jumio Liveness, an advanced, in-house liveness detection technology that expands beyond traditional presentation attacks, such as paper or screen copies, and employs sophisticated AI models to block advanced threats like injection attacks and deepfakes.
Enabled customers using this advanced technology during early release are already seeing measurable value, with one leading LATAM finance startup now catching over 30% more sophisticated fraud attempts including injection attacks and deepfakes.
Jumio’s comprehensive multi-layer defense strategy tackles a wide range of attack types, both current and emerging. By combining liveness detection, AI-driven fraud detection, anti-spoofing technologies and the power of connected intelligence, Jumio’s system is designed to defend against existing threats while staying agile enough to address future attacks. This robust strategy is backed by an expansive portfolio of more than 300 issued patents and patent applications spanning nearly 100 unique patent families and ensures that businesses using Jumio’s services remain protected in an ever-evolving fraud landscape.
“Attackers are using tools that were once confined to research labs. AI-generated faces, synthetic overlays and injection techniques are now being deployed at scale by bad actors,” said Bala Kumar, chief product and technology officer at Jumio. “Jumio’s premium liveness with advanced deepfake detection addresses the next generation of fraud head-on and is the perfect solution for businesses seeking to proactively increase their defenses.”
To learn more about Jumio and its award-winning, AI-powered solutions, visit jumio.com.
About Jumio
Jumio helps organizations to know and trust their customers online. From account opening to ongoing monitoring, the Jumio Platform provides AI-powered identity intelligence anchored in biometric authentication, automation and data-driven insights to accurately establish, maintain and reassert trust.
Leveraging powerful automated technology including biometric screening, AI/machine learning, liveness detection and no-code orchestration with hundreds of data sources, Jumio helps to fight fraud and financial crime, onboard customers faster and meet regulatory compliance including KYC and AML. Jumio has processed more than 1 billion transactions spanning over 200 countries and territories from real-time web and mobile transactions.
Based in Sunnyvale, California, Jumio operates globally with offices and representation in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East and has been the recipient of numerous awards for innovation. Jumio is backed by Centana Growth Partners, Great Hill Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners.
For more information, please visit www.jumio.com.
Jumio Launches Premium Liveness Detection Solution for Superior Protection Against Deepfakes and Injection Attacks
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — For Ruma Aktar, a sewing machine operator at a garment factory in Bangladesh, one single item has transformed her work and improved her life: A pair of reading glasses.
Aktar's work is demanding, with each worker expected to produce thousands of garments a day. Precision is essential, and even small mistakes can slow production or result in rejected items. Aktar said her new glasses have helped her thread needles faster — and they've also relieved her headaches and eye strain.
“Before I got the glasses, it took me a long time to thread the needle. Now I can thread it in just a short time. I make far fewer alterations than before,” she said.
In Bangladesh, home to the world’s second-largest garment industry after China, some factory owners are working on supplying more glasses to workers to boost productivity. The country's garment sector contributes about 11% of gross domestic product and employs around 4 million workers.
VisionSpring, a global nonprofit social enterprise supplying affordable glasses to people in poorer countries, estimates that roughly one in three Bangladeshi garment workers need glasses but do not have them.
The group has supplied glasses that cost less than ten dollars per pair to some workers through a partnership with the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, which represents factory owners.
Ella Gudwin, chief executive of VisionSpring, said the benefits were immediate, as workers were better able to meet quality and production targets. Better vision also reduces mistakes such as skipped stitches, uneven hems and misplaced buttons, cutting the need for rework, she said.
Fahima Akhter, a director of Bangladeshi garment company Masco Group, said managers initially did not realize how many workers had vision problems because they rarely complained. She said Masco Group has screened about 5,000 workers, with around 30% receiving glasses.
Akhter said her company plans to extend the program to its remaining workforce of more than 20,000 employees.
“We don’t consider it a cost. It is an investment. If the workers are working with better vision, their productivity and workplace safety will improve, and eventually this will translate into better productivity and profit for the company," she said.
A randomized controlled research trial in India that was co-authored by Gudwin suggested that sewing machine operators who received reading glasses increased productivity by 6% while making fewer errors. The study, published in April in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, found that every $1 spent on vision screening and glasses generated $3.37 in productivity gains over 12 weeks.
It estimated that expanding similar programs across the global textile and garment industry could generate the equivalent of $27 billion in additional annual output.
Gudwin said vision correction has long been overlooked because eyeglasses were often seen as a luxury rather than an essential workplace tool. She said many factory workers develop age-related short-sightedness in their late 30s and early 40s, but delay treatment because they assume glasses are expensive.
Gudwin said bringing eye screenings directly into factories removes those barriers.
Masco Group’s Akhter said Bangladesh’s garment sector should make vision screening a standard workplace benefit.
“Having a clear vision is not a luxury, it is a necessity now,” she said.
An eye care professional from VisionSpring examines a worker at a garment factory in Gazipur, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)
A worker tries on her prescription eyeglasses at a garment factory in Gazipur, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)
An eye care professional from VisionSpring examines a worker at a garment factory in Gazipur, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)
