Hopae has unveiled a real-time verification service for Brazil’s digital driver’s licence on its Hopae Connect platform, pairing encrypted QR code decoding with facial biometric matching checked against official government records.
The new offering allows companies to confirm a licence’s authenticity in three ways. First, the platform decrypts the official QR code on the CNH at string level, pulling registration details such as the holder’s name, CPF number, birth date, parents’ names, licence category, registration number, expiry date, first-licence date and issuing state directly from the certified credential rather than relying on information typed in by a user.
Second, a live selfie is measured against the photograph held in official licensing records, producing a similarity score and confidence rating to establish that the individual presenting the licence genuinely owns it.
Third, the decoded details are cross-referenced with Brazil’s national identity bodies, including the tax authority and the National Traffic Secretariat (SENATRAN), to confirm both the document and its underlying demographic data remain valid.
Brazil represents one of the largest identity ecosystems globally, with upwards of 200 million CPF records, more than 85 million people registered through the driver’s licence system and over 65 million digital CNH credentials in use.
Because QR codes became compulsory on all new CNHs from 1 May 2017, and licences issued without them would ordinarily have lapsed by mid-2022, nearly every valid licence in circulation today can be verified through the service.
Hopae provides identity verification infrastructure through Hopae Connect, a single API designed for regulated, high-stakes use cases. The company said its workflows meet string-level assurance standards while complying with the EU’s GDPR and Brazil’s LGPD, with consent, data minimisation and privacy-by-design embedded throughout.
The launch signals the beginning of a broader expansion into Latin America, where sectors such as FinTech, crypto, online gambling and identity verification providers are scaling quickly and require compliant onboarding tools.
Hopae positions Brazil, given its size and digital identity maturity, as the natural first market, with ambitions to become the identity layer underpinning the region’s growth. The service is available now, targeting regulated financial services, mobility and ride-sharing platforms and other trust-critical applications, replacing manual document reviews with instant, government-backed checks.
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