Police Circumvent FRT Bans by Asking Neighbors for Help
Police in major US cities have found a way to bypass bans on facial recognition technology by requesting help from neighboring towns with fewer restrictions.…
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Amazon to Bring Palm-Payment Tech to All Whole Foods Stores This Year
Amazon is expanding its innovative palm-scanning payment system, Amazon One, to all of its Whole Foods stores across the United States by the end of this year.…
OpenAI Restricts GPT-4’s Facial Recognition Capabilities
OpenAI has taken measures to prevent its AI tool, GPT-4, from being used broadly for facial recognition. In addition to performing text-based interactions,…
Illinois Supreme Court Sets Statute of Limitations for BIPA Claims
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has a five-year statute of limitations. The decision is the…
Biometrics Commissioner Looks at Facial Recognition in Scottish Prisons
Scotland’s Biometrics Data Commissioner is asking the Criminal Justice Committee for more oversight over the country’s prisons. Commissioner Brian Plastow is…
Israeli Border Agency Called to Task for Illegal Sharing of Biometric Database
Roy Friedman is taking Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority to task for mishandling biometric data that was captured at the Israeli border. Friedman…
Judge Rules Insurance Company Is on the Hook in BIPA Class Action Lawsuit
Citizens Insurance Co of America has been roped into a pair of class action lawsuits that originate with Clearview AI. One of the lawsuits alleges that…
South Wales Police Return With New Facial Recognition System Following Legal Defeat
The South Wales Police department is preparing to resume its use of live facial recognition technology. The department first started trialing face-based…
Five Flashpoints That Are Shaping the Course of the Facial Recognition Debate
Facial recognition is one of the most contentious biometric technologies on the market today. It also happens to be one of the most confusing, insofar as the…
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…