London, October 2, 2025 – Keyless, the leader in privacy-preserving biometric authentication, has been named a ‘Luminary’ in Acuity Market Intelligence’s newly released Biometric Digital Identity Privacy and Compliance Prism Report. This recognition sets Keyless apart as the highest-ranking company in the Passwordless Authentication category, solidifying its leadership in providing biometric authentication that prioritises both security and privacy.

The report provides a particularly comprehensive regional breakdown of privacy regulations, detailing how different regions such from the EU to Latin America have approached data protection laws, from GDPR in Europe to LPPD in Chile. The report also examines vertical-specific identity threats, from ransomware attacks targeting healthcare organizations to data breaches in the travel industry. 

The 2025 Prism Report highlights Keyless for its exceptional performance in ‘Privacy and Compliance Leadership’.

The report also includes a key customer use case: Relai, a Swiss Bitcoin wallet. Relai chose Keyless to meet its strict MFA requirements due to the security Keyless offers without compromising privacy. Keyless was chosen over methods like FaceID and SMS OTPs, as it avoids exposing PII while still offering the highest level of security.

Fabian Eberle, Keyless Co-Founder and COO, shared, “Being named a Luminary in the Biometric Digital Identity Privacy and Compliance Prism Report is a huge honor. It underscores our commitment to innovation, privacy, and compliance. With an increasingly complex landscape, the need for solutions that can provide strong biometric security but also safeguard privacy is now critical.”

The report also details a topic that Keyless has long evangelised. Keyless has always advocated for a solution to the debate over how biometric data should be stored: on-device or server-side. On-device systems, like Apple’s FaceID, keep data on the user’s device, ensuring privacy but limiting flexibility and security, as the face is tied to the operating system and is only checked against the one used to set up FaceID, rather than the one that enrolled into the app. Server-side systems store data on a central server, offering more flexibility and security but risking privacy if the server is breached.

Keyless emerged with a new approach: decentralized biometrics, combining the best of both. Recognized by Gartner for three years, it uses servers, but transforms biometric data into a cryptographic form before it leaves the device, so what leaves is not legally considered biometric data. This offers the security and flexibility of server-side systems with the privacy of on-device.

For a deeper understanding of Keyless' industry-leading approach to biometric authentication, you can access the full report here.

While this latest report introduces key advancements in the industry, it also revisits the Deepfake & Synthetic Identity Prism Report, where Keyless was previously recognized as a Luminary. For a deeper understanding of how Keyless continues to set the benchmark for advanced biometric authentication, you can access that report here.