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.

(February 4, 2025 - February 11, 2025)

• The identity and biometrics landscape is rapidly evolving with legal battles, regulatory shifts, and technological advancements, including Amazon's biometric privacy litigation and new global age assurance laws.

• Investment in digital identity and authentication is strong, as seen by Onfido's first financials post-acquisition and SailPoint's ambitious IPO, indicating a growing trend towards verifiable digital credentials and enhanced authentication solutions.

• Biometric adoption is expanding across identity, payments, and surveillance, with innovations like decentralized biometric authentication and gesture-based age estimation being trialed, while also facing regulatory tightening on facial recognition payments in some regions.

• The shift towards passkeys and AI-driven identity verification is accelerating, with companies like Socure processing billions of verification requests, but concerns about privacy risks are also on the rise.

• Digital identity adoption is at a pivotal phase with the rollout of mobile driver's licenses and investments in digital public infrastructure, but there are also concerns about the potential for authoritarian influence and the need to balance digital transformation with privacy rights.

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