Biometric Digital Identity Privacy and Compliance Prism Report

We’re proud that Aware was named a Luminary in Core Identity Technology in the 2025 Privacy and Compliance Biometric Digital Identity Prism!

This is the seventh report from The Prism Project—a research, analysis, and market education initiative created by Acuity Market Intelligence to bridge the gap between the identity technology intelligentsia and the enterprise professionals evaluating and deploying digital identity solutions to meet the challenges of digital transformation. This report drills down into two critical challenges facing every organization and user in our modern digital world: privacy and compliance.

What we’re most proud of: “Aware is synonymous with biometrics; a foundational technology pioneer whose innovations and advancements have guided the identity industry from its law enforcement roots, through the consumer-facing applications of the past decade, to the current moment of privacy-empowering identity solutions.”

In this report, you will find:

• A crash course in biometric digital identity.
• An inventory of identity elements commonly used in digital identity transactions, categorized according to how they
  affect user privacy, and described using plain language and easy-to-read diagrams.
• A regulatory map, highlighting key privacy laws and trends around the globe.
• A breakdown of common challenges facing the relying parties that must handle these identity elements, examined by representative markets and through the proprietary Prism Lens model.
• A privacy and compliance-focused version of the proprietary Biometric Digital Identity Prism market landscape model.
• Evaluations of vendors, relying parties, and infrastructure Biometric Digital Identity Privacy and Compliance Prism Report