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The Biometric Update Podcast bridges the gap between industry insiders and a general interest audience with clear, compelling stories about the biometrics and digital identity industry.
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It used to be that good help was hard to find. These days, real help is hard to find. Amplified by AI, fraud attacks target every part of the hiring pipeline, from fake resumes to deepfake interviews. In this episode, Socure's Head of Product Deepanker Saxena takes us into the world of hiring fraud.
The way digital identity is commonly presented – as a tool for protecting against fraud and other benign uses – is different from how it’s being built, according to World Ethical Data Foundation Director of Institutional Programming Michael Nash.
Nash tells The Trust Files, presented by Velvet and Biometric Update, that digital ID is redesigning how people are allowed to live their lives, without fixing the problems it was intended to solve.
Hal Lonas thought he might like to be an astronaut. So he studied aeronautics. But he got bored.
The world of identity fraud moves faster than just about any sector, so Hal has found a suitable challenge as the CTO of Trulioo. In this episode, he talks about how to stay ahead of the bad guys when you're fighting fraud on a cosmic scale.
Cooperatives emerged as a reaction to the excesses of the industrial revolution. In the digital context, an equivalent can give people control and ownership over their own data while benefitting local communities, SafeGuarden Co-founder and Chair of CDD Services David Crack.
Data cooperatives offer the opportunity to reuse the data for proof of age or to share a range of credentials, Crack says I the latest episode of The Trust Files.
Tony Allen is busy organizing the Global Age Assurance Standards Summit, coming to Manchester from April 12-14, 2026. But he took some time to give the Biometric Update Podcast a preview of some festival highlights, as well as his thoughts on how age assurance legislation is unfolding in Australia and the UK -- and, on chairs.
In a contribution to The Trust Files, presented by Velvet and Biometric Update, Venkatesh argues credentials are just one piece in the larger continuous trust machine. He explains the urgency of the situation and the other pieces of the system needed to scale AI safely.
Conversations from on the ground at MOSIP Connect 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. Biometric Update Managing Editor Chris Burt talks digital identity, inclusion, interoperability and biometrics with Andrew Musoke of CMU Africa and Digvijay Kanwar of Next Biometrics.
The agent economy is replacing the digital economy the world is still adjusting to, Ping Identity Group Product Manager Adam Rusbridge says in the new episode of The Trust Files, from Velvet and Biometric Update.
But unauthenticated AI agents represent a trust gap in this new three-actor system, according to Rusbridge. He suggests the paradigm shift requires a universal trust layer to enable visibility and governance, which fortunately can be achieved by extending zero-trust identity foundations. It is an evolution, he says, not a revolution.
Jay Meier of FaceTec wants you to know that not all liveness detection is of the same pedigree. Testing is critical, so relying parties can know who to trust. Universal Wallet Infrastructure (UWI) is set to change the game for interoperability. And the VC guys? Maybe we don't need them in ten years, when biometrics and liveness do everything. A lively conversation between FaceTec's Chief Identity Technology Strategist and Biometric Update Managing Editor Chris Burt.
The status quo, with personal data as the default currency for value exchange, underpins the free online services that are central to the way most people experience the internet.
Empowering consumers may benefit businesses more than commonly thought, however, MyTerms Co-founder Kari McMullen suggests in the new episode of the Trust Files, from Velvet and Biometric Update.
OpenAge, the reusable age assurance system based on passkeys, launched in November of last year. Since then, it has garnered support from all sides of the debate, from Meta to the adult content industry to children's rights campaigners. In this episode, Julian Corbett, head of the OpenAge Initiative, explains how it spun out from compliance provider k-ID.
The latest market forecast from Goode Intelligence focuses on biometric physical access control systems. Chief Analyst Alan Goode talks modalities, technological innovation and market opportunities with the Biometric Update Podcast.
Access to technology is more commonly discussed than digital literacy when considering how inclusive technology is, Chloe Coleman of Vouchsafe points out in the latest episode of The Trust Files, from Velvet and Biometric Update. But digital literacy is also multi-faceted, and a generation encouraged to think everything should be a single click or scan away can struggle with practical requirements for digital access.
Onboarding users to corporate systems involves complexity beyond consumer applications, particularly for multinationals. Henry Balani of Encompass Group argues in a new episode of The Trust Files from Velvet and Biometric Update that while it may never be as painless as the best consumer verification experiences, but digital identity can make it better than the status quo.
Would you be comfortable knowing your life depended on a healthcare worker remembering a password? What if it was sixteen characters long, with letters, numbers and at least one symbol? On the latest episode of the Biometric Update Podcast, Imprivata's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sean Kelly discusses the company's new report on why passwordless technology matters in medicine.
Vidos ID Co-founder Tim Boeckmann has good news about the future of an open and interoperable digital ID ecosystem; It is inevitable.
He makes the argument that “Identity infrastructure cannot be ideological” in the latest episode of The Trust Files, from Velvet and Biometric Update.
The window to save the internet’s reputation is closing. That is the stark warning of Evin McMullen, CEO and co-founder of Privado ID and Billions Network, in episode two of The Trust Files, from Velvet and Biometric Update.
Hartley Thompson, the CEO of Microblink, discusses why the company has shifted its focus from document capture to the larger picture of trusted identity, as generative AI keeps making it harder to tell what's real from what's a deepfake. As an "Identity Intelligence OS company," Microblink aims to orchestrate trust across the identity spectrum.
Do we have a trust crisis?
This is the central question of the inaugural episode of The Trust Files, a new series of short interviews introduced by Velvet and Biometric Update to provide snapshots of the digital trust landscape.
Digital identity is only as valuable as it is trusted. The Trust Files explores how that trust can be achieved and maintained in the context of the rapidly evolving digital marketplace.
In the first episode, Orchestrating Identity Chief Trust Officer David Rennie poses the big question facing not just the industry, but the whole digital world.
Software quality assurance testing consultancy KJR handled the technical and school testing for Australia's Age Assurance Technology Trial. In this episode of the Biometric Update Podcast, KJR director Andrew Hammond offers his insider's view on the trial, the country's social media view, and the many use cases for AI KJR is also testing.
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