State of Biometrics Report 2025
Each year this report assesses future trends and developments to help prepare the biometrics community to be ready for the next opportunities and also its potential challenges, highlighting the need for responsible use and putting people first to build citizen trust in AI-driven biometrics.
The Institute’s Future Direction Group has identified five significant themes to watch which the report outlines in more detail.Â
This year’s State of Biometrics Report  focuses on keeping it real and the question of how to prove you’re who you are in a digital world. It navigates the biometrics deepfake challenge, privacy and real-time biometric identification, the question of proportionality, and the need for standards in digital identity and emerging technologies.
The 2025 report covers the following:
- Keeping it real
- Privacy and real-time biometric identification
- Proportionality – who decides?
- Digital identity interoperability – are we there yet?
- (E)merging modalities
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Looking for past insights?
If you are interested in learning more about our previous State of Biometrics Reports, you can find details for each of our previous reports below. Access to the full report archive, including the years listed, is an exclusive benefit of Biometrics Institute membership.
State of Biometrics Report 2024 link.
State of Biometrics Report 2023 link.
State of Biometrics Report 2022 link.
State of Biometrics Report 2021 link.
State of Biometrics Report 2020 link
State of Biometrics Report 2019 link
