# General

Curata allows your customers to authenticate and verify themselves, in real time using biometric facial recognition matching against South Africa’s national population register, or an alternative reference image source. We help you combat possible fraud and reduce your downstream costs, while ensuring consumer consent is given – for 100% compliance.

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## Why Curata?

* <mark style="color:purple;">**Patented Liveness Detection**</mark> technology makes sure your customer is actually in front of the device’s camera at the time of authentication.
* <mark style="color:purple;">**Eliminates fraud**</mark> by obtaining the authentic documentation directly from source and eliminates presentation of counterfeit documents.
* **Reduces turn-around-times** of authenticating customers digitally.
* <mark style="color:purple;">**Boosts the application process**</mark>, as data on each customer can be auto populated from a variety of sources after using Curata.
* The information is processed in a <mark style="color:purple;">**safe and secure encrypted manner**</mark> and is trusted by South Africa’s leading banks.
* <mark style="color:purple;">**Fully Cloud-based**</mark> technology.
* Includes <mark style="color:purple;">**POPIA compliant**</mark>  consent
* Robust comprehensive <mark style="color:purple;">**AI based Deep Fake Detection**</mark>

## Biometric Services

1. Liveness Detection (Active and Passive liveness options)
2. Deepfake Detection&#x20;
3. Document Upload and Face Extraction&#x20;
4. ID Photo Matching
5. Course Correction


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