Facebook appeals class action certification of BIPA lawsuit
Facebook is appealing the decision by U.S. District Court Judge James Donato that complainants in a lawsuit filed against 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.
Ticketmaster to trial facial recognition for event access
Ticketmaster is planning to implement facial recognition technology for uses including admission to event venues, VentureBeat reports. Texas-based startup Blink…
Holiday Inn in Chicago sued under BIPA
Holiday Inn employees in downtown Chicago are suing their employer under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, according to a Law360…
Google lobbies to change BIPA
Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., is lobbying to roll back photo provisions in Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), according…
Minnesota’s Target Field deploys fan cameras with facial recognition
Major League Baseball’s Minnesota Twins have partnered with Fancam to capture high-resolution images of fans throughout Target Field, and apply…
Judge rules BIPA suit against Facebook can proceed with class action certification
A lawsuit against Facebook will continue with class action certification after U.S. District Court Judge James Donato found it the…
Startup DeepCam emerges from stealth with AI and facial recognition retail product
AI company DeepCam has come out of stealth mode after three years, launching the Retail by DeepCam plug-and-play system for…
Illinois legislators consider amending BIPA as Facebook lobbies
Illinois legislators are considering an amendment to the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) which would exempt businesses from the…
Facebook accused of facial recognition privacy violations in EU and US
Facebook is facing privacy challenges on both sides of the Atlantic, as the launch of limited tests of an opt-in…
4 of 5 Gulf enterprises rely solely on usernames and passwords
More than four out of five large enterprises in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region currently rely solely on username…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection