UPDATED: Stay Up to Date on Our 17th Annual Biometrics Year in Review Coverage with Our Ongoing Roundup

In many industries, openness and dialogue between constituent businesses, even if they’re rivals, is often a critical condition for fostering overall industry growth. Knowing not only what competitors and peers are doing, but also what they’re thinking, can help industry leaders to set their objectives and adapt to market and regulatory changes. That may be especially the case in the world of biometrics, where the dynamics of consumer perception and market demand can shift rapidly, while major regulatory frameworks are still emerging.

That’s why the annual FindBiometrics Year in Review survey is so important. Each year, it features the participation of industry professionals and analysts, who share their views on some of the most critical issues facing the industry; what this produces is, in the end, a comprehensive self-portrait, helping participants to better understand and situate themselves in a very complex industry. The survey tends to reaffirm popular beliefs, such as the excitement around facial recognition and financial services applications in recent years; and it can also deliver some genuine surprises, such as the third of respondents in last year’s survey who said they felt uncomfortable with how their governments were using biometric technology.

This year’s results, collected from a record 230+ participants, are no less interesting, and should prove helpful to industry leaders as they consider their strategies going forward into 2020.

Check out the Year in Review results and analysis as it is published:

Year in Review: FinServ Consolidates Its Hold and Citizen ID Makes a Bold Debut in Top Applications

Year in Review: A Status Quo Surprise for the Most Exciting Biometric Modalities

Year in Review: When Do We Think Biometrics Will Replace the Password?

Year in Review: ‘Friction’ is Still a Bad Word

Year in Review: The Appeal of Biometric Airport Screening

Year in Review: The Consensus Solidifies on Biometrics Testing

Year in Review: Consensus on Privacy, and Confusion Over Regulation

Year in Review: Using Biometrics to Buy Beer and Cannabis

Year in Review: An Industry Divided Over Controversy

Year in Review: 98% Support Educating the Public on Biometrics

Year in Review: The Industry Speaks, Part 1 – Surfing the Privacy Wave as Biometrics Surge

Year in Review: The Industry Speaks, Part 2 – Education and Transformation in Biometrics

Year in Review: The Industry Speaks, Part 3 – Contactless, Frictionless, Invisible Biometrics

Year in Review: The Industry Speaks, Part 4 – Simplifying Life with Biometrics

And be sure to hear what the industry leaders have to say about the past year – and the decade – on the special Year in Review episodes of the ID Talk Podcast:

ID Talk Podcast: Jumio’s Dean Nicolls on AI, Biometrics and Fighting Fraud

ID Talk Podcast: The Decade in Biometric Border Control With CLEAR CEO Caryn Seidman-Becker

ID Talk Podcast: Iris ID’s Year in Review, Healthcare Biometrics, and Government Applications

ID Talk Podcast: SecuGen’s Year in Review and Optical Fingerprint Biometrics Innovation

ID Talk Podcast: Aware’s Year in Review and the Road to Automotive Biometrics

ID Talk Podcast: BioConnect’s Year in Review, Unifying Physical and Digital Identity

Check back regularly to stay up to date on the 17th Annual FindBiometrics Year in Review.

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The 2019 FindBiometrics Year in Review is made possible by our sponsors: Aware, Inc., Clear, IDEMIA, SecuGen, Iris ID, FacePhi, Jumio, BioConnect, BIO-key.