IAD, zero-retention biometrics can bridge EU-UK governance gap

While the industry continues to heavily rely on PAD, peer-reviewed findings reveal that this legacy control is rapidly failing against the threat landscape. Threats tend to wax and wane, especially in tech, where constant innovation drives advances in fraud. Early in 2025, the UK government declared deepfakes to be “the greatest challenge of the online age” – a scourge requiring urgent attention from legislators and biometrics providers. Deepfake detection was about to come into its own.