Patchwork of state AI privacy laws creates confusion and uncertainty
In the absence of broad federal legislation that specifically prohibits or restricts the use of AI, the vacuum has and…
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.
Alcohol sales policy catching up on age verification in the US, UK
New legislation in Pennsylvania puts new emphasis on age verification technology as a means of preventing alcohol sales to underage…
Illinois heads off accrual precedent for biometric data privacy damages
Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been officially amended, with Governor J.B. Pritzker signing the changes into law on…
US sues TikTok for alleged violations of kids’ privacy, court order
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) has sued TikTok, its parent company ByteDance and affiliated companies “to put an end to…
Russian govt working to popularize biometrics in domestic market
The Russian government is making significant efforts to popularize biometric technologies in the country, despite a low trust level to…
OVE Touch & Go raising equity funding to commercialize biometric payments
OVE Touch & Go has turned to crowdfunding platform StartEngine to commercialize its biometric retail payment technology and fingerprint point-of-sale…
Meta’s $1.4B settlement in Texas biometric data privacy lawsuit approved
Meta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle the lawsuit against it for using…
Biometric data privacy lawsuit against Amazon, Starbucks mostly thrown out
A lawsuit against a pair of retail titans in New York City over alleged violations of biometric data protection rules…
Korean regulators plan formal framework for biometrics as use cases expand
The scope of biometric technologies is often boiled down to facial recognition and ID verification. But in Korea, as biometric…
Worldline, PayEye collaborate to develop a biometric payment system
Worldline has announced a strategic partnership with PayEye to develop cashless payment systems using biometric identification. The collaborative payment solution…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Understanding MOSIP
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection