- Anti fraud: for some scenarios involving high-risk financial operations (such as cross-border transfers, large investments, etc.), by monitoring changes in the location visited by mobile phone numbers, potential fraudulent behavior can be detected in advance. For example, when a user usually only operates in a few provinces within the country, but suddenly has access records from overseas or unfamiliar high-risk provinces, and there are also signs of abnormal fund flow, preventive measures can be taken quickly.
- Identity verification: In the financial field, when users perform high-risk operations such as large transfers or changing important account information, in addition to conventional verification methods such as passwords and verification codes, identity verification can also be carried out by combining their phone number with the province they recently visited.
- Remote abnormal operation detection: For the account security management of e-commerce platforms, when users perform login, password modification, payment and other operations, they can use this API to detect whether there are abnormal operations in remote locations.
- Asset Tracking: Monitoring the movement of valuable assets by tracking the locations visited by the device associated with the asset.
Device Visit Location
API Description
The “Device Visit Location” API enables developers to retrieve the geographical locations visited by a device within a specified time window.
Use Cases
Benefits
- Enhanced Security: Proactively identify fraud and unauthorized access through location-based insights.
- Streamlined Compliance: Simplify identity verification processes for financial and e-commerce platforms.
- Operational efficiency for the API customer (cost savings).
API Portfolio: Location Services
SubProject Wiki: N/a, Independent Sandbox, See API Wiki
(incl. how to meet the team)
API Wiki: Device Visit Location
API Repository: Location Insights
API Repository Status: Sandbox
API Status: In progress
API Version(s) and Release Date(s):
- In progress
API availability: Information which APIs are available in which country and network, and how to get access can be found on the GSMA public launch status page.