Instagram Faces Class Action Lawsuit Under Illinois Biometrics Law
Facebook is facing another potentially massive BIPA lawsuit. The news comes mere weeks after the social media giant offered a $650 million settlement in a…
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U.S Sens Sanders, Merkley Propose Nation-Wide BIPA Legislation
A pair of U.S. Senators, Jeff Merkley and Bernie Sanders, are proposing a nationwide version of the now famous Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act…
Texas AG Investigates Facebook Over Biometric Privacy Breach
Axios is reporting that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading an investigation into social media giant Facebook for possible breaches of the Texas…
Facebook Returns with Increased Settlement in BIPA Case
Social media giant Facebook has brought forth an adjusted settlement claim to a U.S. District Court for a lawsuit filed against it earlier this year for…
Facebook Messenger Users Can Secure Accounts With iPhone Biometrics
Social media giant Facebook announced that it has launched biometric authentication for its popular Messenger platform on iPhones and iPads. The new feature —…
Judge Freezes Facebook’s BIPA Settlement, Suggesting Too Much Lenience
A $550 million dollar settlement negotiated by Facebook has been put on hold by U.S. District Judge James Donato until lawyers explain to him why the amount is…
Facebook’s Clearview-style App Never Saw Light of Day
Facebook was testing out an Augmented Reality app that would let users identify where people at whom they pointed their phone were ‘friends’ with them on the…
Facebook Tells Clearview AI to Stop Taking Photos
Clearview AI is continuing to experience blowback over its controversial facial recognition scheme. Facebook has told Clearview to stop mining the social media…
Facebook’s Online Speech Recognition Framework Becomes Widely Available
Facebook has announced that it will be making its wav2letter@anywhere online speech recognition framework more readily available as an open source platform.…
New Facebook Tech Alters Videos to Avoid Facial Recognition
Biometrics News – Facial Recognition Facebook AI Research has unveiled a new de-identification engine that uses machine learning to remove identifying facial…