Digital Identity Friday Five: February 7, 2025
Covering the most interesting news for the week of February 1 to February 7
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Today is Friday, February 7. I don’t have five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week. I have ten!
First, will I see you at Secure Technology Alliance’s Identity & Payments Summit in #SanDiego Feb 24-26?
Check out PEAK IDV "SPECIAL COVERAGE" of the event’s #mDL showcase featuring #identitywallet legend David Kelts
🔗: peakidv.link/mDLshowcase
Let’s get into this #epicten
1/ Aware, Inc. Appoints Ajay Amlani as Chief Executive Officer
Aware announced it appointed serial founder & digital identity company builder Ajay Amlani as their new CEO
Amlani's CV includes companies like iProov, Credence ID, IDEMIA and CLEAR - I expect big things from this #biometrics player with him at the helm
Congrats, Ajay!
2/ Socure Hires BARRETT YOUNG as Chief Marketing Officer
Another major exec hire, this one from "Certainty in Identity" provider Socure
"Barrett will focus on strengthening Socure’s position as the leading AI-driven platform for identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk decisioning."
Congrats, Barrett & Johnny Ayers
3/ Ballerine Appoints Cihat Fitzgerald as Chief Risk Officer
Ballerine is a risk intelligence platform designed to help #financialinstitutions, #fintechs, and #marketplaces automate and optimize merchant onboarding, verification, and lifecycle monitoring processes
They announced a new Chief Risk Officer this week
Congrats Cihat & Noam Izhaki
4/ Anonybit Secures Patent for Privacy-Enhancing Biometric Authentication
USPTO has approved Anonybit's patent for decentralizing biometrics - huge news!
Congrats, Frances Zelazny & team
5/ Iden2 Announces the Acquisition of Bindle Systems Inc
Congrats, Alfy Louis!
6/ Mashable: Grubhub confirms data breach
Drivers & customers are impacted!
7/ Business Insider: ByteDance's OmniHuman-1 shows just how realistic AI-generated deepfakes are getting
You gotta see the Albert Einstein video: peakidv.link/OmniHuman
8/ Meta Outlines Improved AI Transparency Disclosures
This one care of Marketplace Risk's feed
#genAI #labels
9/ Technavio: hashtag#IdentityVerification Market to Grow by USD 16.92 Billion from 2024-2028
#forecast #idv
10/ Clever Inc. Report Finds 76% of School Administrators Lack Confidence in Current Protections for Student Digital Identities
Interesting report from Clever - "The global identity platform for
education"
I hadn't heard of this company before, but it is now on my radar
*** LINKS
AWARE: https://peakidv.link/1-ff02-07
SOCURE: https://peakidv.link/2-ff02-07
BALLERINE: https://peakidv.link/3-ff02-07
ANONYBIT: https://peakidv.link/4-ff02-07
IDEN2: https://peakidv.link/5-ff02-07
GRUBHUB: https://peakidv.link/6-ff02-07
BYTEDANCE: https://peakidv.link/7-ff02-07
META: https://peakidv.link/8-ff02-07
TECHNAVIO: https://peakidv.link/9-ff02-07
CLEVER: https://peakidv.link/10-ff02-07