Meta executives have shut off some avatars and filters for their Texas and Illinois subscribers. Both states have laws restricting…
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.
Mitek arbitration bid in biometric data privacy lawsuit rejected
A U.S. District Court Judge has ruled that Mitek is not included in the arbitration agreement between its client HyreCar and…
ITL’s MyCheckr: a step forward in age estimation
A simple addition of biometrics-based automation to age checks when purchasing age restricted goods could reduce violent incidents, along with…
Biometric data must be processed with ‘European values’: EDPS opinion on Data Act
Clarity is needed to ensure special types of highly sensitive data such as biometrics and health information are fully protected…
Busy BIPA days: Amazon, 7-Eleven and rail company BNSF
A new class action filed against several of Amazon executives, including company founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy, claims…
FinGo unveils vein biometrics-based vending machines with age verification
FinGo has completed the integration of its biometric payment and age verification technology into a new vending machine solution. The…
NEC enrolls biometrics of 50M Vietnamese for ID authentication
Around 50 million Vietnamese have had their biometrics captured for ID authentication as the country is modernizing its digital ID…
Settlements mount in Illinois face biometric data privacy lawsuits
Courts in the State of Illinois resolved and continued legal disputes over the use of face biometrics by Google, TikTok,…
U.S. gov’t gets an earful on biometric data policy. It’s not the first earful….
Another day, another unambiguous message to government officials and business executives about biometric data — hands off. Individuals should govern…
Optional biometric age checks proposed for New York State
New York State Senate is considering a bill that would allow hospitality businesses like bars and restaurants to offer their…
