2025 has been a pivotal year for digital trust with record levels of adoption for digital identity and biometric solutions supported by important state regulation that aims to make the internet a safer place, including regulation to restrict adult and age-inappropriate content to children.
Alongside this, 2025 has witnessed an explosion of AI driven attacks on digital trust infrastructure, leading to record levels of fraud. The availability of easy-to-use AI tools that create fake identity documents and generate deepfake videos are challenging identity verification and biometric authentication solutions. It is looking like 2025 has been a boom time for fraud. Based on reports from financial institutions and fraud prevention services, 2025 has seen an increase in both the volume and total amount of money lost to fraud. In the UK, criminals stole £629.3 million in the first half of 2025 alone across 2.09 million confirmed cases in the UK, a 17 percent increase in cases compared to the same period in 2024. Thankfully, the industry has stepped up and is counteracting these threats with tools that accurately identify people, detect fake documents and deepfake videos. These tools, in addition to solutions that detect injection attacks, are being deployed across the board and integrated into the workflow for important identity verification and anti-fraud processes to ensure that the identity documents presented are authentic and in the hands of their legitimate owners.
As we head into 2026, it is vital that the industry gets access to reliable and up-to-date information on the latest developments in digital trust. To help you navigate through this, Biometric Update and Goode have teamed up to develop reports that educate and inform, allowing you to make decisions that best suit your business. Our reports of 2025 have covered the hot topics for the digital trust industry with detailed analysis of liveness detection, online age assurance, deepfake detection and digital identity verification.
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