Fifteen years after its passage, the U.S. state of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act only looks more threatening to non-governmental…
Commercial Applications
Biometrics are used in retail and customer-facing settings for point-of-sales services such as payments, access control in systems for purposes such as shoplifting prevention, and identification or characteristic analysis for personalization or customer insights. Access control systems are also increasingly used for automated commercial applications, such as hotel check-ins. Typically, these use palm vein, fingerprint, iris recognition, facial recognition.
Australia rethinks data privacy
Following the Attorney-General’s Privacy Act Review Report, the Albanese government has announced its proposals to protect its citizens against identity…
ITCAN rolls out biometric age pass for vape stores, while Washington debates
Biometric measures for age verification are gaining ground in Canada and Washington state, as retailers and regulators try to prevent…
Biometric payment adoption grows as Amazon lawsuits allege data privacy violations
Biometric payment systems – and privacy concerns surrounding those systems – are on the rise. Biometric payments could provide frictionless…
Data privacy law is in effect in Quebec and businesses are confused about what it means
With the second phase of Quebec’s Law 25 in effect as of September 22, a new survey says there is…
BIPA defendants take their fates out of courts; Samsung can’t avoid arbitration
For all its boilerplate bluster about winning the biometric privacy lawsuit it was defending against in the United States, face-scraper…
Delaware enacts wide data privacy law without consumer right to sue
A new consumer data privacy enacted in Delaware applies to wider range of businesses than similar laws in other states,…
Biometrics for payments, not tracking customers in Amazon Just Walk Out stores
Amazon says the Just Walk Out store in the Seahawks’ Lumen Field NFL stadium launched last year is a rousing…
The latest US state to consider data privacy law with no right of action: Pennsylvania
The quilt of consumer privacy laws in the United States continues to unfold. This week, lawmakers for the state of…
Vsblty gets retail biometrics analysis patent, talks new products, buyout
Retail security and analytics company Vsblty has announced a new U.S. patent, for anonymous face detection, that shops could use…
