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The goal of this project is to replace the current vendor for identity verification (IDV) on edx.org, Software Secure, with a new vendor, Persona. Software Secure has deprecated their IDV feature, which means that 2U's IDV feature no longer works properly. On edx.org, IDV is used solely for verifying name changes via the Name Affirmation feature in the frontend-app-account MFE, but IDV may be used for other purposes in the community (e.g. to block generation of a verified certificate).
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