Glossary

Commonly Used Abbreviations

CVV

Card Verification Value: A verification number on any credit card, usually 3-4 digits long

DOB

Date Of Birth

DV

Driver’s License

GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation (EU): EU-wide data privacy regulation protecting natural persons and their personal data, especially in regards to collecting, processing and the free movement of that data

ISO 3166-1

ISO standard detailing standard country code abbreviations (like AUT, DEU, etc); either alpha-2 (using two letters) or alpha-3 (using three letters)

KYC

Know Your Customer

KYX

Know Your Everything: Jumio’s end-to-end identity platform

MRP

Machine Readable Passport

MRTD

Machine Readable Travel Document

eMRTD

Electronic Machine Readable Travel Document

MRZ

Machine Readable Zone: Standardized, usually at the bottom of the identity page of a passports, between 2 and 3 lines long, varies in size

NFC

Near-Field Communication: Establishes wireless connection from one device to another, but only if that device is in close enough proximity; can act as an electronic identity document / electronic identity token and is already used in many identity documents worldwide

NV

Netverify

OAuth2

An industry-standard protocol for authorization

OAuth2 Access Token

An access token using the OAuth2 protocol to make safe API calls and securely access resources from a server

OCR

Optical Character Recognition: Converts images of text, such as text on IDs, to machine-encoded and machine-readable text

PII

Personal(ly) Identifiable Information: All of our products deal with highly sensitive data regarding information relating to an identifiable person, which is handled with great care, the best possible security and in compliance with the GDPR

PP

Passport

3D-Liveness

Liveness check: The 3D-liveness check makes sure that a face scan performed was not of a picture, but of an actual, living person who also matches the picture on the previously scanned document

DID

Digital Identity