Biometrics are now in nearly every national ID and a growing share of logins, and the law has caught up. BIPA, the EU AI Act, and a wave of US state rules treat biometric identifiers as a special category. Here is what changed and what to do.

The FIDO Alliance announced an estimated 5 billion passkeys now in use worldwide, with 75 percent of people having enabled a passkey on at least one account. Its State of Passkeys 2026 report, spanning 11,000 consumers and 1,400 enterprises across ten countries, marks passkeys moving firmly into the mainstream.