Google argues for biometric privacy suit dismissal based on photo and interstate commerce exemptions
Google is planning to show that Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) does not apply to data taken from photographs,…
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.
Biometric privacy suit alleges Onfido violated Illinois’ informed consent rules
Onfido is the latest biometrics company to be hit with a potential class-action suit under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act…
Maryland law prohibits face-scanning during job interviews without consent
Beginning October 1, it will be illegal for a company to use biometric facial recognition during the process of interviewing…
Judge rejects “98.75 percent discount” of $550M settlement in Facebook biometric privacy case
Facebook’s $550 million settlement agreement over alleged biometric data privacy violations is in doubt, after a federal judge refused to…
Privacy policymaking might as well be in quarantine
If COVID-19 deaths have not prompted a unified approach to infection control in the United States, it might be foolhardy…
Biometric privacy lawsuit decisions: Clearview AI loses, Shutterfly and Southwest win, TikTok in trouble
A biometric data privacy suit against Clearview AI will move forward, and in the District Court for Northern Illinois, as requested…
Dermalog’s fever screening technology deployed at German shopping mall
Germany’s Scandinavian Park mall has chosen contactless fever screening technology from Dermalog, the country’s largest biometrics firm, to improve health…
Selfie biometrics could strengthen age verification but businesses fear for profit
More than half of adult-oriented sites in age-restricted industries in the UK suspect minors have used or purchased their products…
CRS asks, who is ‘watching the watchers’ in analysis of proposed privacy protection bills
In recent months, members of Congress have introduced four consumer privacy bills and circulated discussion drafts of two additional proposals,…
Legal experts warn of uncertainty and inconsistency in biometric and health-tracking technology rules
Biometric technologies are being rolled out to support health risk evaluations from a distance as people return to work, but…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection