Biometric Update https://www.biometricupdate.com Biometrics News, Companies and Explainers Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:56:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 66434804 Concordium’s Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki wants to keep your AI agents in line https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/concordiums-boris-bohrer-bilowitzki-wants-to-keep-your-ai-agents-in-line https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/concordiums-boris-bohrer-bilowitzki-wants-to-keep-your-ai-agents-in-line#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:37:02 +0000 https://www.biometricupdate.com/?p=338960 “Without identity, autonomous action is just autonomous risk.” So says Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki, CEO of Layer-1 blockchain protocol Concordium. Concordium has been using its tech to address various use cases, like age assurance. But Bohrer-Bilowitzki believes the emergence of the agentic economy – at unprecedented speed, no less – is the moment the company was built for. “A lot of things that we’ve done over the course of the last year – if you think of privacy preserving age verification for the online gambling or adult industries, because the online safety acts and whatever are being enforced globally in all these various jurisdictions – was kind of to bulletproof the core thesis. Which did work.” And good thing, too. Bilowitzki, a crypto veteran, says the speed at which agentic AI is taking over is like nothing he’s ever seen. “So you know, suddenly we live in a world where AI agents can transact. But the big question is, can they be held accountable?” Agents are useful insofar as they don’t go off script. Hence the need for robust authentication and identity tools to ensure they’re operating as they’re supposed to. Bohrer-Bilowitzki sees the risks, but he believes his firm has the solution. “Concordium is very, very uniquely positioned, with a protocol level identity, protocol level token issuance, protocol level locking mechanisms. And everything else.”

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Runtime: 00:23:27]]> https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/concordiums-boris-bohrer-bilowitzki-wants-to-keep-your-ai-agents-in-line/feed 0 338960 Veratad among first certified to ISO 27566 age assurance standard https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/veratad-among-first-certified-to-iso-27566-age-assurance-standard https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/veratad-among-first-certified-to-iso-27566-age-assurance-standard#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:09:32 +0000 https://www.biometricupdate.com/?p=338932 Veratad is one of the first companies worldwide to achieve certification to ISO/IEC 27566‑1:2025, the newly established international standard for age assurance systems. The certification covers the company’s Veratad VX age and identity assurance platform, which supports adaptive workflows using document checks, biometrics, reusable digital identities and data based verification. The new ISO standard aims to bring clarity to a sector where the terms age assurance and age verification are still widely conflated. ISO/IEC 27566‑1 attempts to lock down definitions and establish shared conceptual ground for determining age‑related eligibility, offering a global reference point even as terminology varies across languages. It is not a technical specification but a framework for consistency in how age assurance systems should be designed, implemented and governed. "Being part of the first group of companies globally to achieve ISO/IEC 27566 certification is a meaningful milestone for Veratad," says John E. Ahrens, CEO of Veratad. "This standard represents an important step forward for the industry, bringing structure and clarity to how age assurance should be implemented. We're proud to help lead that effort." The certification follows an independent assessment of Veratad’s technology, workflows and operational controls. This checked requirements covering accuracy, privacy, security and risk management. The announcement coincides with the Global Age Assurance Standards Summit 2026 where Biometric Update was on location as regulators, industry leaders and technology providers work to advance international alignment on age assurance practices But even as ISO/IEC 27566‑1 establishes a baseline, experts acknowledge that standards bodies move far more slowly than the technology they aim to govern. The age assurance sector is evolving rapidly with new methods such as biometric liveness detection outpacing terminology in existing standards. As with earlier ISO frameworks on presentation attack detection, updates will follow a fixed schedule that cannot match the pace of innovation. The need for independent, third‑party sources of guidance tracks how language and practices evolve. Without that, the industry risks drifting into conceptual ambiguity even as regulatory scrutiny increases. Veratad’s VX platform is used across online gaming, social media, adult content and age‑restricted commerce. Its orchestration layer allows organizations to tailor verification methods to jurisdictional rules, risk thresholds and user experience requirements . This allows for flexibility the company says is essential as global standards evolve. “As adoption accelerates globally, organizations need solutions that are both effective and proportionate,” Ahrens adds. “VX enables our customers to meet these expectations by orchestrating the right methods for the right context, while maintaining transparency and user trust.”]]> https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/veratad-among-first-certified-to-iso-27566-age-assurance-standard/feed 0 338932 World targets central IDV, AI agent management role with selfie biometrics https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/world-targets-central-idv-ai-agent-management-role-with-selfie-biometrics https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/world-targets-central-idv-ai-agent-management-role-with-selfie-biometrics#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:08:12 +0000 https://www.biometricupdate.com/?p=338924 World’s latest update positions the company as an identity verification provider for the world of agentic AI, with new tools covering selfie biometric authentication, deepfake protection and bot-resistant governance. World Co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman were scheduled to co-host the “Lift Off” launch event, but with Blania unexpectedly in hospital, Tools for Humanity CPO Tiago Sada subbed in to introduce “World ID 4.0” OpenAI CEO Altman began with the company’s familiar pitch for differentiating people from AI to maintain trust in the altered online world. There are now 18 million users with their iris biometrics have used their credentials 150 million times, according to Sada, so it will have to scan a lot more people’s iris biometrics to deliver on that promise. Daniel Shorr, who works on applied research for TfH called the new version of World ID a “complete soup-to-nuts reengineering of the stack.” In builds in new privacy protection features including key rotation, multi-party entropy to keep data unlinkable and credential control. The company also unveiled Agent Kit, with Shorr explaining “We don’t want Skynet. Agent Kit, we feel, is an incredibly compelling answer here.”

Selfie biometrics for IDV

World’s embrace of IDV includes a “Selfie Check” service “for specific use cases” based on face biometrics and liveness detection. Selfie is the lowest of the World ID verification levels, in terms of assurance, behind “Official ID” (medium) and “Human” (high). World has been piloting the authentication method in 2024. Shorr also introduced a new World ID app, which includes AI agent management. As demonstrated later in the event, selfie authentication is also used in agentic authorization. Apps will pay World a fee to prove users are human, meaning World’s monetization plan is  to become and IDV provider.

Partnership push

Tinder CPO Mark Van Ryswyk explained the role of World ID in his company’s “trust stack,” including as an age assurance method in Japan. Tinder previously used a process that typically took users half an hour, but now gets people through its World-powered flow in 2 minutes, he said. Van Ryswyk announced at the event that Tinder has now expanded its support for World ID to the U.S. DocuSign is integrating World ID as a premium offering, and Zoom is integrating it for   deepfake prevention. World Product Manager Tawanda Mahere described deepfake detection tools on the market as generally relying on pixel-level analysis. “World ID Deep Face, enabled by the native integration with Zoom goes a step further, to provide hardware-backed root of trust to give you real-time proof of presence,” he said. Zoom Founder Eric Yuan appeared with the deepface verification icon in the corner of his window, and a live demo of a deepfaked Blania concluded with the remote CEO completing selfie biometric verification from a hospital bed. Pilots at various institutions are launching, starting with Van Eck Funds. A partnership with AWS on “proof of human and agentic solutions for enterprises” is also in the works, Sada says. Okta is launching agent delegation feature Human Principal, built through a partnership between TfH, to beta, and Shopify is running a test integration of World’s Agent Kit. The company announced integrations with Vercel, exa, Browserbase and Coinbase for AI agent management, delegation and audit trail creation. World also unveiled “Concert Kit,” a tool for protecting tickets from being snapped up by bots that was previewed towards the end of last year in Guatemala. Upcoming tours by 30 Seconds to Mars and Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak will use the tool. World is also increasing Orb coverage in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco to register more users’ iris biometrics, and has launched an “Orb on Demand” service to bring biometric scans directly to groups of users.]]> https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/world-targets-central-idv-ai-agent-management-role-with-selfie-biometrics/feed 0 338924 Idenfy launches MCP server to bring live API docs into AI assistants https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/idenfy-launches-mcp-server-to-bring-live-api-docs-into-ai-assistants https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/idenfy-launches-mcp-server-to-bring-live-api-docs-into-ai-assistants#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:07:40 +0000 https://www.biometricupdate.com/?p=338969 iDenfy has launched an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which gives developers the ability to plug the company’s live technical documentation directly into AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor and Perplexity. MCP is an open standard introduced by Anthropic in late 2024 and now supported across the major AI ecosystems. It enables AI assistants to pull external data sources on demand. By connecting to iDenfy’s MCP server, an AI assistant can read the company’s current API documentation before answering a question. This ensures that field names, endpoints and code examples match the live platform. “Developers don’t want to read 50 pages of documentation to find out the name of one field,” said Domantas Ciulde, CEO of iDenfy. “They want to ask a question in the tool they’re already using — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — and get an answer that actually works. The MCP server makes that possible.” “The assistant reads our real docs, so the code it writes uses our real API. No more guessing.” AI assistants often guess parameter names or reference deprecated endpoints, forcing developers to switch back and forth between chat tools and browser tabs. But now developers can generate integration code or debug webhook issues using the MCP server. Compliance check requirements can be made entirely within their editor or AI interface. The server is read‑only and serves only public documentation. It does not access customer data, API keys or verification results; nor does it perform API calls on behalf of developers. iDenfy says the design ensures that developers retain full control over what they share with their chosen AI assistant. iDenfy’s MCP server is available now and is free for all developers. Securing the interaction between systems and AI agents is still up in the air, with the nascent field having to consider the threat of rogue agents and other manipulations. At the MCP Dev Summit 2026 in New York City, Gluu founder and CEO Michael Schwartz presented his vision for secure AI agent authorization. In it, Schwartz elaborated how authorization should move beyond role-based access control to policies that include context and complexity. Meanwhile, Pindrop, in comments to NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, has argued that traditional security models based on one‑time login credentials break down once AI systems start acting on a user’s behalf. Trust now depends on whether the delegation was legitimate, whether the approval was genuine, and whether actions remain attributable and governed over time. Pindrop is highlighting human approval integrity and active liveness detection. This means authorization events should incorporate real‑time signals involving audio and visual analysis, behavioral cues, device intelligence and contextual risk. Pindrop stresses that AI trust is about understanding whether an agent is authorized for a specific action under current conditions, and whether the human approval chain is intact. This shift has four practical implications for enterprise identity systems: treating human approvals as first‑class identity events; maintaining clear provenance chains linking approvals to agent actions; incorporating synthetic‑impersonation risk into assurance models; and making trust adaptive as context changes. AI agent identity is now a governance and authorization challenge, Pindrop argues, as much as a technical one. As agentic systems become more autonomous, enterprises will need frameworks that verify not only the software component but also the authenticity of the human who approved the action, especially in real‑time human‑facing channels where deepfakes and spoofing are already reshaping risk. More on Pindrop’s thoughts on NIST and AI agent identity can be found on the company’s blog here.]]> https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/idenfy-launches-mcp-server-to-bring-live-api-docs-into-ai-assistants/feed 0 338969 Anthropic adds limited biometric ID verification from Persona to Claude https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/anthropic-adds-limited-biometric-id-verification-from-persona-to-claude https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/anthropic-adds-limited-biometric-id-verification-from-persona-to-claude#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:41:11 +0000 https://www.biometricupdate.com/?p=338905 Anthropic is introducing identity verification on its AI chatbot platform Claude for a “small number of cases.” For its verification provider, the company has chosen Persona, which also supplies biometric age verification for ChatGPT and facial age estimation for Roblox. The verification process will include submitting a government-issued photo ID and a selfie for biometric matching and liveness detection. Anthropic says that the verification process will be initiated when users are "accessing certain capabilities, as part of our routine platform integrity checks, or other safety and compliance measures." “This applies to a small number of cases where we see activity that indicates potentially fraudulent or abusive behavior, which violates our usage policy," a company spokesperson told Business Insider. Claude users do not seem happy about the possibility of sharing their identity data with Persona, a problem the company also faced recently in a failed attempt to bring the technology to Discord. When the messaging platform announced tests with Persona’s age assurance in February, its users quickly drew attention to the fact that Palantir’s co-founder Peter Thiel is an investor in the IDV firm through his Founders Fund.​ A cybersecurity investigation then exposed an uncompressed version of Persona’s frontend code on U.S. government-authorized servers, raising further suspicions. ​Persona responded by fixing the issue and describing concerns from Discord users as “conspiracies.” The U.S.-based company said it does not work with federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which rely on Palantir's surveillance technology. Discord, on its side, apologized for not explaining the testing to its users and announced it was not moving forward with age checks through Persona. In its newest update, Anthropic explains that it will remain the data controller for user verification data on Claude, but the IDs and selfies will be collected by Persona, which is contractually limited in how it can use the data. All data passing through Persona is encrypted, while the platform will only provide verification and  improve its ability to prevent fraud. Anthropic also reassured customers that their identity data and biometrics will not be used to train the company’s AI models or shared with anyone else.]]> https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/anthropic-adds-limited-biometric-id-verification-from-persona-to-claude/feed 0 338905 Google investing $5M into LatAM DPI projects through Co-Develop https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/google-investing-5m-into-latam-dpi-projects-through-co-develop https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/google-investing-5m-into-latam-dpi-projects-through-co-develop#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:14:10 +0000 https://www.biometricupdate.com/?p=338906 Google has pledged $5 million in support for Latin American governments adopting digital public infrastructure (DPI), including digital IDs and payment systems. The tech giant cited the example of IdLAC, a digital identity broker that connects digital identity providers with public or private services that need to verify users’ identities. The announcement was made during the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The funding will go through Co-Develop, a nonprofit fund focused on investing in DPI projects in low- and middle-income countries, and is part of a border cooperation with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). First initiated four years ago, IdLAC allows citizens across Latin America and the Caribbean to conduct digital public service transactions in another country using their national digital identity. The service acts as a broker for interoperable digital ID exchange under the Mercosur Digital Citizen initiative, also known as the LAC Digital Citizen or “Regional Digital Citizen.” “This technology is designed to be easily reused, saving nations from building expensive, custom software from scratch,” says Google. “A citizen from Brazil, for instance, can use their credentials in Colombia or Argentina to seamlessly manage entry requirements, verify vaccine coverage, or fulfill medical prescriptions while traveling.” The system was developed by 12 countries in the region through the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) with support from the World Bank, Co-Develop, the Organization of American States (OAS), and Red GEALC, a network of e-government authorities in Latin America and the Caribbean. IdLAC was launched in October 2025 and piloted for immigration processes for foreign visitors to Chile using Chile's digital identity system ClaveÚnica (Unique Key). “It is estimated that next year most Latin American countries will be able to integrate into this regional digital hub, which could make the region one of the most digitally integrated in the world,” José Inostroza, head of the Chilean Ministry of Finance's Digital Government Secretariat, said at a presentation of the pilot in November. The following month, Uruguay and Brazil announced that cross-border digital identification through IdLAC will be available for foreign trade procedures. Brazilian citizens who have obtained gold-level digital identification through the national platform Gov.br will be able to access services on Uruguay’s Foreign Trade Single Window (Ventanilla Única de Comercio Exterior - VUCE). The software was developed by Uruguayian company Pixys. Among the countries included in development are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay. As part of its partnership with the IDB, Google also plans to offer free online AI training for government officials in the region. In addition, the tech firm has released a report on the impact of AI on Latin American economies. Co-Develop joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance in January to collaborate on the push for safe and inclusive DPI around the world.

Brazil a regional leader

Brazil’s early adoption of IdLAC for foreign trade and Google’s use of its ID system as an example above reflect the progress the country has made on digital government, which the World Bank highlights in a recent blog post. A diagnostic analysis performed at the request of the country’s government by the World Bank’s Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative in 2019 helped shape a broad vision for how digital identity could help the country deliver services online. The result was a leap from 20 million to 170 million registered digital ID users. The challenges faced by the government in implementing the National Digital Government Strategy (ENGD) are analyzed in an article published in the journal Frontiers in Computer Science. Bruno Baranda Cardoso addresses the gaps in digital maturity, risk culture and role of public technology companies that played a role in the development of Brazil’s digital government system.]]> https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/google-investing-5m-into-latam-dpi-projects-through-co-develop/feed 0 338906 New version of EU age verification app to follow biometrics bypass, exposure claims https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/new-version-of-eu-age-verification-app-to-follow-biometrics-bypass-exposure-claims https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/new-version-of-eu-age-verification-app-to-follow-biometrics-bypass-exposure-claims#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:33:54 +0000 https://www.biometricupdate.com/?p=338895 A new version of the “technically ready” EU age verification app released on Wednesday is expected any time, an official said after commentators online claimed to have discovered privacy and security vulnerabilities in it. Independent developers claimed the vulnerabilities could expose sensitive data stored on user’s devices, including biometrics, and also allow users to bypass the app’s biometric authentication features, a white hat hacker told Politico. The European Commission unveiled the app as ready but not yet available to the public. The developers behind the app, Scytáles and T-Systems, presented it to the age assurance community at the Global Age Assurance Standards Summit. Almost immediately, reports of vulnerabilities from security analysts and began appearing on social media. “DG Connect and the contractor have taken immediate steps,” said EC Digital Spokesperson Thomas Regnier following the revelations. “A new version has just or will soon today be updated. So this is what I mentioned, the code will be constantly updated and improved. It's open source, and I cannot today exclude or prejudge if further updates will be required or not.” Regnier characterized the latest version of the app’s open source code found on GitHub as a demo version. He emphasized that the age verification app’s developers are listening to feedback, and that in the long term it will meet the “highest privacy standards globally.”]]> https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/new-version-of-eu-age-verification-app-to-follow-biometrics-bypass-exposure-claims/feed 0 338895 KYC bypass tools sold on Telegram to defeat biometric checks https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/kyc-bypass-tools-sold-on-telegram-to-defeat-biometric-checks https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/kyc-bypass-tools-sold-on-telegram-to-defeat-biometric-checks#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:30:56 +0000 https://www.biometricupdate.com/?p=338950 Illegal hacking services designed to bypass Know Your Customer (KYC) facial biometric scans are being sold on Telegram channels to scammers looking to launder money. The channels offer stolen biometric data as well as a variety of software for bypassing KYCs, including virtual cameras (VCam) that can be used during liveness checks to insert a deepfake or an image of another person. Sellers promise that the tools can get around compliance checks of well-known financial institutions, including crypto exchange Binance, Spain's second-largest bank BBVA and UK-based Revolut.​ The findings were published by MIT Technology Review, which examined 22 public Telegram channels and groups in Chinese, Vietnamese and English.​ Among the services on offer are jailbreaking physical phones, which allows scammers to use a virtual camera on the phone, and hacking a financial institution’s app with code known as the “hooking framework,” which triggers the VCam to open. “Increasingly, hackers compromise both the phone itself and the code of the financial institutions’ apps before feeding the virtual camera a mix of stolen biometrics and deepfakes,” says Sergiy Yakymchuk, CEO of cybersecurity company Talsec.​ Success rates, however, are hard to gauge, as organizations may remain unaware of KYC bypasses or fail to report them until later.​ Binance, BBVA, and Revolut say they are aware of KYC bypasses, while Telegram told MIT that it has removed the channels in question. Many more, however, are likely to go unnoticed. The rise of hacking tools for sale is driven by the expansion of Asian scam syndicates across Africa and the Pacific. Many of the syndicates are based in Cambodia and Myanmar, where government oversight is limited and legal frameworks are underdeveloped. Fraudsters often obtain money through “pig-butchering scams,” a sophisticated form of online investment fraud, and then pass it on to money-laundering networks, known as “water houses.” Money launderers then gain access to bank accounts by circumventing KYC controls, turning them into money mules and redistributing illicit proceeds. Finally, the money is channeled into digital assets, particularly the stablecoin Tether, where it can lose trace. In 2025, around $17 billion was stolen in crypto scams and fraud, according to blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. In Vietnam and Thailand, government authorities have been attempting to stamp out mule accounts by introducing tougher identity verification and anti-fraud measures. As of 2024, Vietnamese banks must use biometric authentication for money transfers exceeding 10 million Vietnamese dongs (US$380). Vietnam also recently introduced facial scans for mobile subscriptions and mobile device registrations. Thailand has also imposed heightened KYC requirements for banks and mobile networks. The latter are intended to combat identity fraud, “ghost SIMs,” and SIM box systems, which are often exploited by fraud rings.]]> https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/kyc-bypass-tools-sold-on-telegram-to-defeat-biometric-checks/feed 0 338950 SITA urges digital identity, AI coordination as aviation faces ‘significant pressures’ https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/sita-urges-digital-identity-ai-coordination-as-aviation-faces-significant-pressures https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/sita-urges-digital-identity-ai-coordination-as-aviation-faces-significant-pressures#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:54:40 +0000 https://www.biometricupdate.com/?p=338884 SITA’s most recent report mentions the elephant in the room regarding the industry, as the conflict in the Middle East wreaks havoc on global aviation. More than ever, airlines and airports are being urged to close the gap when it comes to data coordination to fully unlock the efficiencies that can be enabled by technology and build foundations that will “outlast the current disruption.” “We are publishing this research at a moment when the industry is under significant pressures,” said David Lavorel, SITA CEO. The executive reveals that across every area measured  in the Air Transport IT Insights 2025 report, there arose a common constraint. Where data doesn’t flow freely across systems and partners, investment is unable to fully deliver what it was designed to unlock. “That constraint carries a higher cost today, but also a clear opportunity to emerge stronger,” he said. Airlines and airports are significantly raising their IT spending as they race to build more resilient, data‑driven operations. Airlines invested $36 billion in 2025 — 3.6 percent of revenue — while airports lifted their IT spend to $14.8 billion, or 7.3 percent of revenue. More than 80 percent of both groups now view data‑driven decision making as a strategic priority. The report found operational reliability is closely linked to financial issues, with flight delays alone costing the industry $30 billion annually. Nearly half of airlines (46 percent) are upgrading flight operations systems to unify data across aircraft, crew, passenger and scheduling platforms. However, almost the same proportion (49 percent) point to fragmented data being the biggest barrier to early disruption management. The implementation of the EU’s biometric EES for border control, which involves extensive data-sharing, led to significant delays this week, despite widespread suspension of the biometrics element.

Lack of coordination limits digital identity scale

Digital identity is scaling quickly, with 64 percent of airlines planning to issue their own digital credentials, which is double 2024’s figure, and biometric border controls are expected to reach 83 percent of airports by 2028. But coordination remains the limiting factor as 57 percent of airlines say airport cooperation is vital for digital identity to scale. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently concluded that fully contactless international travel is already achievable, enabled by biometrics, if governments begin issuing and accepting digital passports at scale. AI adoption is accelerating, but its impact is constrained by data integration. Among airlines, 63 percent now use AI in operations control to coordinate decisions across aircraft assignment, crew availability and disruption recovery. Generative AI is the top investment priority for the next year. Yet AI is used least in areas that require consistent, multi‑partner data as only 17 percent of airlines use it to monitor turnaround activity in real time. However, airports are closing that gap, with 53 percent now applying it to aircraft turnaround, an increase from 36 percent in 2024. “Aviation is deploying AI with real ambition,” said Lavorel. “But the survey is clear: the primary barrier to maximizing that investment is the lack of data integration across the operation. The technology is there. The data infrastructure to connect it often is not.” Cybersecurity has become a top concern as more systems are interconnected. Cybersecurity is ranked the primary IT focus by 71 percent of airports, and nearly two‑thirds (64 percent) are using AI to detect anomalies earlier. Sustainability is a big focus for passengers worldwide. A global survey from October 2025 by SITA revealed that travelers want faster, smarter and greener journeys. The desire for digital convenience and sustainability was especially pronounced among millennials and Gen Z passengers. However, SITA logs the same pattern in sustainability with airlines advancing in areas they control directly, such as fleet renewal and selective SAF sourcing, while emissions tracking, which requires shared data across operators, remains below 20 percent adoption. Across AI, cybersecurity, digital identity and sustainability, the report finds a consistent pattern: progress is fastest where data flows freely across systems and partners, and slowest where it does not.]]> https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/sita-urges-digital-identity-ai-coordination-as-aviation-faces-significant-pressures/feed 0 338884 SIA GovSummit https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/sia-govsummit-2 https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/sia-govsummit-2#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:07:08 +0000 https://www.biometricupdate.com/?p=338933 SIA GovSummit Washington, D.C. May 20-21 2026 GovSummit—the government security conference hosted annually by the Security Industry Association—brings together government security leaders with private industry technologists for top-quality information sharing and education on security topics affecting federal, state and local agencies. You'll find specialized sessions on essential topics in:
  • Contracting and procurement
  • Infrastructure and facility protection
  • How security product standards help meet government needs
  • The latest policies, practices and trends impacting security
  • And more!
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