Biometric systems are being rolled out in a wide variety of contexts with a huge range of implementation architectures, many of which intersect with identity systems. For good reasons, public concerns about these systems are growing. However, the biometrics industry overall and the entities rolling out those implementations to the public have done a poor job communicating about how their systems work. These communication failures put the identity industry at risk because in the eyes of the public, biometrics are a part of their identities, while in reality these are two rather separate fields where players haven’t collaborated much in a meaningful way across fields. At the heart of this session is a taxonomy of biometric use-cases along with names and icons to describe them. These range from on-device biometric matching for authentication to unlock a phone to real time video where faces are being recognized and then compared to a database of millions of faces to identify who is walking down a public street in real time. The identity industry needs to have a common language to challenge the biometrics industry to clearly communicate so that none of our good work is caught up in misunderstanding and fear mongering.