U.S. district court gets Clearview AI’s attention; biometrics firm decries latest legal setback
The fight over biometric face-scraping and -selling is building like a professional wrestling story line, and, at least to some,…
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.
Biometrics-based retail analytics launched by TouchByte and Collective Intel, deployed by VSBLTY
New retail analytics solutions leveraging computer vision have been launched by TouchByte and Collective Intel, while VSBLTY has announced 300-store…
China creates privacy codes with biometric data protections, but is it just for show?
China’s first civil code — ever — is scheduled to go live January 1. It will pay particular attention to…
Growing clarity in Illinois’ biometric privacy law shows possible defenses for third-party vendors
Suits brought under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) against biometrics providers as third party vendors face hurdles which have…
IBIA and Open Technology Institute respond to commercial biometrics limitations of proposed privacy act
International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA) Executive Director Tovah LaDier is not thrilled with the National Biometric Information Privacy Act (NBIPA)…
Macy’s sued for allegedly violating biometric privacy with Clearview AI use
Macy’s use of Clearview AI’s face biometrics violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), according to a proposed class action…
Broad biometric protections in Senate bill with slim prospects
With notable exceptions, legislation proposed by U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley would make it all but impossible for…
Biometric age verification proposed for restricted purchases in New York State for third time
A New York State lawmaker has introduced a bill to allow biometrics to be used to verify the age of…
AI companies develop computer vision behavioral analytics for public spaces, retail
viisights is expanding its biometric behavioral analytics customer pool, as more cities, organizations and partners across the world choose its…
Manchester pubs use FinGO vein biometrics for age verification, contact tracing
The hospitality industry in the UK has introduced a biometric vein mapping system to verify age. Biometric identity authentication system…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection