Articles tagged with privacy issues
With privacy and government surveillance being increasingly salient issues in the discussion around biometric technologies, industry stakeholders may be…
Microsoft is getting rid of some of the features that it currently offers to its facial recognition clients. The decision was made in an effort to adopt a more…
Scotland is trying to regulate the police use of biometric technologies, including facial recognition. Brian Plastow, the country’s biometrics commissioner,…
The Adelaide City Council is in a standoff with the South Australia Police (SAPOL) over the use of facial recognition. Adelaide is planning to replace its…
The Australian consumer advocacy group Choice is sounding the alarm about facial recognition in brick-and-mortar retail outlets. The organization queried 25 of…
ID.me is trying to dispel some of the privacy concerns that critics have levelled at the platform in the past few months. The company was celebrating its…
Google is the latest tech giant to reach a settlement in a BIPA case. The company was facing a class action lawsuit that originated with the Face Grouping…
Federal lawmakers are making progress on a national data protection law. A bipartisan group of legislators have put forward a 64-page draft version of a new…
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK has handed down its final judgment in its investigation of Clearview AI. The privacy watchdog had…
The Manchester, New Hampshire, police department is trying to recruit local businesses and the general public into a large-scale video surveillance scheme. The…