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.

(August 12, 2025 - August 19, 2025)

• Accelerating Convergence: Discover how regulatory pressure and technological innovation are rapidly converging across the identity and biometrics landscape, defining the sector's unprecedented challenges and opportunities.

• Age Assurance Backlash: Explore the growing public resistance to AI-driven age checks, with negative user reactions to YouTube and Google Search implementations, and federal judges blocking state mandates, highlighting the tension between privacy and child safety.

• Biometrics Boom & Bust: Unpack a record-setting week in biometrics, featuring major certifications (eIDAS 2.0), global adoption (120M Vietnamese bank records), and military upgrades, alongside persistent risks like procurement scandals and debates over facial recognition use in policing and property rentals.

• Digital Identity's Global Push: Witness the unmistakable momentum in mobile driver's licenses (mDLs), digital wallets, and decentralized identity, with countries like Switzerland, Singapore, and those aligning with the EU's EUDI Wallet framework pushing forward, despite ongoing fragmentation.

• AI: The Dual-Edged Sword: Understand AI's powerful dual role as both an enabler of security and a threat multiplier, with advancements in deepfake detection through blood flow analysis, but also rising concerns over voice cloning and calls to block unauthorized PII use in AI training models.

• Fraud Defense & Compliance: Learn about the latest in identity proofing, verification, and AML compliance, including new authentication platforms replacing one-time passwords, but also widespread data compromise incidents and the ongoing push for legal ID reforms to combat statelessness.

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