Juul and WeWork sued under BIPA for collecting customer biometrics
A pair of companies known for their modern approaches to old behaviors and recent controversy are among the defendants in…
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.
Lawyers examine stringency of biometric privacy rules as Illinois’ BIPA lawsuits continue
As lawsuits filed under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) continue to pile up, a trio of attorneys from law…
DNA company vulnerabilities could expose biometric profiles of millions
Lax security of DNA databases could turn them into easy targets for hackers and a major risk to national security,…
State constitution does not protect against Illinois biometric privacy lawsuit
A Cook County Circuit Judge has rejected a motion to dismiss a Biometric Information Data Privacy (BIPA) suit against Walmart…
Facebook to appeal to Supreme Court for biometric privacy suit dismissal
Facebook will appeal to the Supreme Court in its Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) suit, seeking to have the potential…
76 percent of European online shoppers have never heard of PSD2
There are major discrepancies in awareness levels between retailers and online consumers when asked about EU’s Payment Services Directive 2…
Vsblty partners with Sensormatic as research shows retail biometrics growth
Software technology company Vsblty has signed a global reseller agreement with Sensormatic Solutions, part of Johnson Controls, to deliver biometric…
VR Office Place launches real time facial recognition, social fingerprint analysis to collect online footprint
VR Office Place has announced a real time facial recognition and social fingerprint analysis solution that can be deployed by…
What businesses need to know about the Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act
This is a guest post by Ana Tagvoryan, Jeffrey N. Rosenthal and David J. Oberly, attorneys at Blank Rome LLP….
Designing a defense: strategies for defending against an Illinois biometric class action
This is a guest post by Ana Tagvoryan, Jeffrey N. Rosenthal and David J. Oberly, attorneys at Blank Rome LLP….
