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.

• Age verification is no longer just about protecting minors; it's become a legislative battleground and a global litmus test for the balance between privacy and technology, sparking clashes over surveillance creep and platform liability.

• The pendulum is swinging on biometric privacy and regulation, transforming from a legal risk into a critical trust differentiator for companies, evidenced by major settlements and growing use restrictions worldwide.

• Step into the deepfake detection and synthetic fraud arms race, where generative AI is fundamentally reshaping the fraud landscape and putting biometrics on the front line as vendors develop layered, adaptive defenses.

• Global digital ID and wallet deployments are scaling fast and entering the mainstream, representing a significant shift from physical credentials to programmable identity and making wallet design a geopolitically charged topic.

• Identity defense is evolving into an AI vs. AI machine-learning battleground, compelling vendors and institutions to move towards intelligence-based identity systems to match the speed and scale of synthetic attackers.

• Digital identity is increasingly a matter of surveillance, national sovereignty, and political power, raising complex questions about who controls verification and the potential for digital colonialism.

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