As national U.S. data privacy law becomes more likely, critics emerge to point out flaws
The push for comprehensive privacy legislation in the U.S. is gaining momentum, as the proposed American Privacy Rights Act 2024…
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.
As retailers turn to biometrics to reduce theft, costs of poor implementation loom
Demand for biometrics to reduce retail crime continues to rise, but the risk of flawed deployments of the technology are…
BIPA one step closer to seeing its first major change since 2008 inception
On Thursday, a bipartisan majority in the Illinois Senate approved the first major change to Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act…
Is digital privacy about to become a basic right in the United States?
Federal lawmakers in the U.S. have proposed bipartisan legislation that, for the first time, “sets clear, national data privacy rights…
BIPA filings in federal court down
The volume of lawsuits alleging biometric data privacy violations under Illinois law in federal court have declined, with the first…
Netherlands gets its first biometric age checks for cigarette buyers
Cigarette smokers in the Netherlands will now have the option to buy tobacco products with age verification technology. Around a…
AVPA calls UK government to legalize digital age assurance
An age verification trade organization is urging the UK government to swiftly adopt regulations allowing stores to use age assurance…
New Zealand’s privacy watchdog investigating facial recognition, promises tougher regulation
New Zealand’s privacy watchdog wants tougher regulation covering the use of biometrics and AI technology such as facial recognition. New…
Judge allows voice biometrics data privacy lawsuit against Amazon to add plaintiffs
A federal judge has sided with plaintiffs who want to amend their lawsuit against Amazon over alleged violations of Illinois’…
Quebec lawyer plans biometric data privacy lawsuit against ecommerce app Temu
Concerns have been raised by Montreal lawyer Andrea Grass regarding the privacy and security practices of Temu. Grass has alleged…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Understanding MOSIP
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection