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- News · Aug 29, 2026Amazon says 175 million customers now sign in with passkeys
Amazon reports more than 175 million customers have enabled passkeys, signing in six times faster, with passkeys now the default on mobile for anyone who has set one up. The FIDO Alliance counts five billion passkeys in use industry-wide.
- Analysis · Aug 29, 2026Passkeys had a hard month, and none of it was the cryptography
Three research teams broke passkey guarantees in August 2026 without touching WebAuthn. The weak points were event logs, sync key custody, and in-session key reuse. Here is what actually changed for your rollout.
- Analysis · Jun 24, 2026Biometric authentication just became a regulatory frontier
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.