EFF Cites Illinois Biometric Privacy Law in Brief on Clearview-ACLU Lawsuit
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed an amicus brief in the case of the ACLU v. Clearview AI to contest Clearview’s claim that an injunction…
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EFF Emphasizes Need for Privacy in Digital ID Conversation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is examining some of the issues that legislators and technology providers will need to consider as they work to…
Seventh Circuit Ruling Lets Defendants Move BIPA Cases to Federal Court
The Seventh Circuit court in the U.S. has weighed in on Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), and determined that the act of collecting and…
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…
RCMP to Continue Using Clearview AI in Limited Circumstances
In a statement emailed to the CBC, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said it will continue to use Clearview AI, but only “in very limited and specific…
Utah Poll Finds Public Support for Facial Recognition
The Salt Lake Tribune and Suffolk University have released the results of a poll that shows that Utah citizens are surprisingly comfortable with facial…
Irish Department of Social Protection Confirms Use of Facial Recognition
Ireland’s Department of Social Protection (DSP) confirmed reports that it uses biometric processing and facial recognition technologies as a part of its public…
Malaysian Government to Implement National Biometric Registration System
Malaysia’s National Registration Department (JPN) is looking to implement a biometric registration system for all official identifying documents in an attempt…
Virginia Lawmakers to Review Proposed Privacy Legislation
A committee of the Virginia House of Delegates voted last week to send several privacy-related bills to a legislative commission for study, including the…