TikTok Faces Class Action BIPA Lawsuit Over Biometric Data Collection
TikTok has become the latest major consumer-facing tech company to face a lawsuit under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The maker of an…
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Critics Voice Concerns About Possible Clearview Contact Tracing Program
Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That has confirmed that the company is currently in talks with multiple state and federal agencies to implement a contact tracing…
ID2020 Emphasizes Need for Privacy in Immunity Credential Conversation
ID2020 has weighed in on the subject of immunity certificates in a new white paper published by the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. The…
EFF Calls for Stricter Facial Recognition Regulations
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published the transcript of Jennifer Lynch’s testimony to the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the…
Plaintiff in BIPA Lawsuit Against Clearview AI Wants Biometric Data Destroyed
The plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in January against facial recognition company Clearview AI is asking a federal judge for a preliminary injunction requiring…
Canadian Real Estate Firm Draws Criticism Over Residential Facial Recognition
The Canadian real estate firm 1Valet has come under fire for using facial recognition on its properties. 1Valet currently manages three buildings in Ottawa and…
Microsoft Celebrates Washington’s New Facial Recognition Bill
Washington Governor Jay Inslee has officially signed the state’s new facial recognition bill into law. The state legislature passed the new regulations on…
Russia Uses Biometric Surveillance to Enforce COVID-19 Quarantine
The Russian government has been using a network of 100,000 facial recognition cameras to keep track of individuals that have been ordered to quarantine for 14…
New York’s SHIELD Act Includes Biometric Data Provision
A provision to the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD) expanding its scope to include the protection of biometric data went into…
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…