Facebook biometric data collection practices investigated by Texas AG
Facebook’s collection of biometric information is under investigation by The Attorney General of Texas to see if it violated the…
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.
Facebook adds $100M to biometric privacy settlement in attempt to satisfy skeptical judge
Facebook has added $100 million to its proposed settlement in a Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) lawsuit, Fortune reports. The…
Is the Facebook biometric data privacy lawsuit in Illinois going to trial after all?
That $550 million that Facebook Inc. agreed to pay in January to settle claims that it violated its Illinois members’…
France is the latest to wade into age-verification quicksand
Age verification schemes are proving as controversial and difficult to implement as any other corner of biometrics. No one knows…
Payments with face biometrics for vending machines and transit, iris recognition at shops unveiled
NEC’s Bio-IDiom facial recognition technology has been integrated by Japanese vending machine operator DyDo, known for automated retail devices that…
Metro facial biometrics, emotion, gender detection system legitimacy disputed in Brazil court
Digital rights advocate Access Now is calling for a ban on biometric data processing used for mass surveillance in public…
Public health and retail biometric facial recognition applications expand amid uneven trust environment
A survey by the European Union’s agency for fundamental rights (FRA) shows that only 6 percent of consumers are willing…
FTC debate: Really fight today’s violators or find more crime to be overwhelmed by
Reflecting the reality of consumer data harvesting, if not the mood of said consumers, the Federal Trade Commission has said…
Google seeks dismissal of face biometric privacy suits and accuses firms of ‘forumshopping’
Google has alleged in court filings that two law firms have brought duplicate cases against the company under Illinois’ Biometric…
AWS and Pindrop named in voice biometric data privacy lawsuit as cases test liability limits
Plaintiffs in a biometric data privacy suit say Amazon Web Services’ call center operations fall under the jurisdiction of state…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection