The G2 Weekly Podcast delivers insights into the world of identity and biometrics. Each week, the podcast will cover important developments in the field, making it a valuable resource for professionals in various sectors.
(October 14, 2025 - October 21, 2025)
Dive into the latest episode of Identity Insights, hosted by MIT Fellow Ralph Rodriguez, as we unpack the crucial convergence of AI, biometrics, and digital identity shaping our world! Tune in this week as we dissect the convergence of security technology, regulatory fights, and shifting consumer trust in digital identity!
• The Age Assurance Showdown: AI Safety and Age Assurance dominated the identity narrative this week, driving regulatory scrutiny from Texas to New Zealand. Learn about Meta hitching teen account settings to PG-13 content levels and the new EU proposal pushing for a 16+ digital minimum age for social media.
• Surveillance Alarms are Ringing: We analyze why Ring's partnership with Flock is reviving home-surveillance privacy concerns and how facial recognition is turning dating apps into a new surveillance front. Also, explore the governance friction surrounding biometrics, including Scotland's opposition to police use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) and Germany's debate over web-searchable face queries.
• The Passkey Imperative: Discover why the identity stack is rapidly converging on passkeys, certified face liveness, and wallet-based credentials. The episode covers the launch of phishing-resistant passkeys by Dashlane and Yubico, benchmarks showing passkeys boost conversion success by ~30%, and how password exposure across government networks reinforces the urgent need for this shift.
• Protecting Against Next-Gen Fraud: We look at how IOTA added post-quantum cryptography to its identity framework and review new research and products specifically targeting deepfakes and voice cloning, highlighting the potent elixir these technologies create for fraud.
• Global Digital ID Race: Capital is flowing into trust tech, with AiPrise raising $12.5M for KYC/KYB and Beyon investing in Jordan’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). We also track the status of the EU’s Entry-Exit System (EES) launch and the movement of national digital ID roadmaps across Vietnam, South Africa, and Albania, alongside Juniper’s forecast of the global digital ID market reaching $80 billion in revenue by 2030.
• Biometrics in Focus: Get insights into the rapid productization of biometrics, including Thales adding biometric cryptography for secure account recovery, Mobai advancing user-controlled, shareable biometrics, and CertaScan hitting 1.5 million captures of infant footprint biometrics.
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