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What does Biometric Liveness Check mean?

Reviewed November 10, 2026

A biometric liveness check is an automated step during identity verification that compares a live camera capture against the portrait on a government ID to confirm a real person is present in real time.

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A biometric liveness check goes beyond uploading a static selfie by asking the person holding the device to complete a live camera check, helping detect stolen photos, screen replays, or borrowed documents. In JoinTheSwing's planned verification flow, Veriff runs the automated document authenticity, biometric face-match, and liveness check after explicit BIPA-style biometric notice and consent.

From the current Veriff check, JoinTheSwing never receives or stores raw ID, selfie, or biometric images — we retain the verification result, Veriff's session reference, your consent receipt, and non-biometric review metadata, while submissions from our earlier, retired in-house verification pass may still have verification photos in private storage until account deletion, as disclosed at /legal/privacy.

Passing a liveness check confirms a person's identity at review time; it never proves relationship intentions, compatibility, consent, or future conduct.

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New member registration, when available, will be on the website and in the native apps; digital membership purchases take place in the native apps via StoreKit 2 and Google Play Billing. Existing members can continue using the website. At launch, member identity verification will run through an automated government ID, biometric face-match and liveness check by Veriff: from the current Veriff check JoinTheSwing never receives or stores the images — we retain the verification result, Veriff's session reference, a consent receipt and non-biometric review metadata. Members who verified through our earlier, retired in-house pass may still have ID, selfie or couple photos in our private verification-document storage, deleted when the account is deleted. The free launch list does not create an account, start a subscription or charge a card.

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