CNIL sets rules for biometric employee time and attendance systems in France
France’s Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) has published regulations for companies using employee’s biometrics, requiring the use…
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euCONSENT age verification interoperability: huge success, but the potential to fail
The encouraging results of the euCONSENT trials for browser-based interoperability for age verification and parental consent were shared at the…
Mayor of Nice calls for deployment of facial recognition following Stade de France clashes
The Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi called for the deployment of facial recognition technologies to prevent situations similar to the…
French Senate seeks to protect against biometric surveillance – with biometric surveillance sandbox
The French Senate Law Commission has released a contradictory report into biometrics that seeks both to ensure France does not…
France announces user-controlled mobile digital identity app for use with national ID
France announces a new system for proving digital identity via a smartphone, while formally discontinuing the ill-fated Alicem app of 2019….
Ex-employee accuses Apple of training iPhone biometrics by violating staff privacy
Apple was questioned about where it collected the 1 billion images it trained the Face ID biometric algorithm with by…
Where do US watchdogs stand compared to international peers? Good question
Many of the world’s governments have privacy watchdogs, and some, like the United States, have created little-noticed independent privacy overseers…
Law enforcement and civil society grapple with facial recognition policy, transparency
Civil society groups around the world are calling for greater transparency in uses of facial recognition by police, and the…
Ready facial recognition market among French soccer clubs restrained by regulator
Soccer clubs in France are tempted by the possibility of keeping violent spectators out of the stands without hindering their…
Spanish soccer club trials Veridas face biometrics for stadium security checks
A trial of Veridas’ and das-Nano’s biometric access control system has been launched at El Sadar stadium in Spain Employees…
