Court Allows Non-Facebook Users to Proceed with BIPA Lawsuit Against Meta
$650 million was not enough to resolve all of Meta’s legal problems in Illinois. That record-breaking 2020 settlement stemmed from a lawsuit that alleged that…
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Texas AG Files Suit Over Meta’s Use of Facial Recognition
Facebook’s parent company is facing new legal woes in Texas. The state Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Meta that alleges that the company’s use of…
Citing ‘Societal Concerns’, Facebook Dials Back Facial Recognition, Looks to On-device Approach
Amid intensifying scrutiny over the Facebook platform’s societal impact, the company has announced that it will discontinue its use of facial recognition. The…
Authenticate Conference Gains Momentum in 2021
Highlights and Trend-Setter Standouts The Authenticate 2021 conference, only in its second year, has wrapped and the plenary sessions for standards body work…
Facebook Looks to Reduce Algorithmic Bias With New Video Dataset
A team of Facebook AI researchers has released a new Casual Conversations dataset that was put together to reduce bias in face and voice recognition systems.…
Facebook Weighs Privacy Risks of Facial Recognition for Smart Glasses
According to a recent story from BuzzFeed News, social media giant Facebook is looking into the possibility of adding facial recognition capabilities to its…
Biometric Login Comes to WhatsApp on Desktop
Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has announced that a new update will allow most users to use biometrics and multi-factor authentication if they want…
Facebook’s Biometric Privacy Settlement Claimed by a Quarter of Those Eligible
“Illinois’s BIPA legislation requires company’s to obtain explicit, informed consent from individuals before using their biometrics – something Facebook did…
Illinois Residents Have Until Monday to Claim Share Facebook Biometric Privacy Settlement
The deadline is fast approaching for Illinois residents who want to claim their share of the $650 million payout in Facebook’s landmark class-action lawsuit.…
Facebook Biometric Privacy Case Settlement Do-over Gets Preliminary Approval
Social media giant Facebook has received preliminary approval from a California federal court to settle its Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)…