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Google Biometrics News
Texas sues Google alleging biometric data collected without consent
Google is facing a lawsuit over alleged biometric data privacy violations from the State of Texas, after Attorney general Ken…
| Oct 13, 2022 | Google pushes passwordless authentication with biometric passkeysGoogle announced Wednesday that it is bringing biometric passkeys to Android and Chrome devices. Writing on the Android developers’ website,… |
| Oct 6, 2022 | Google Pixel 7 supports face and fingerprint biometric unlockThe Google Pixel 7 is officially out today. Despite multiple leaks suggesting the devices will not be a substantial upgrade… |
| Sep 30, 2022 | Damages in Google’s biometric data privacy settlement half of per-person estimateMembers of the class in a $100 million settlement of a biometric data privacy lawsuit against Google will receive less… |
| Sep 20, 2022 | Fingerprint biometric authentication for incognito browsing being added to ChromeA feature which allows a user to access or lock a Chrome incognito tab on an Android device has been… |
| Sep 12, 2022 | $1.2B Israel defense cloud contract includes face detection; Google, Amazon workers protestHundreds of workers and their supporters gathered outside Google and Amazon offices in San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Durham,… |
| Sep 2, 2022 | Blurring a face on YouTube can violate BIPA – new lawsuitA new biometric privacy lawsuit against Google argues that its venerable video-sharing platform YouTube stores images of people’s faces even… |
| Aug 30, 2022 | Berbix, restaurant chains and Microsoft can’t free themselves from BIPA casesAnother month, another batch of new BIPA lawsuits and court developments for the biometrics and privacy communities to pore over…. |
| Aug 25, 2022 | Google Wallet enters 6 new countries, hints at digital ID feature for US airport checkpointsThe new Google Wallet app, unveiled by the tech giant in May, is now available in six new countries: Azerbaijan,… |
| Aug 22, 2022 | Google puts multimodal biometrics unlock on Pixels, Samsung gets faster fingerprint sensorSeveral big names in smartphones have unveiled updates (or have been the object of rumors) regarding new biometrics within their… |
| Aug 1, 2022 | Sprinkling of reports say fingerprint biometrics failing on Pixel 6aThe only way that a recent report about the Pixel 6a could be more surprising would be if someone said… |
| Jul 12, 2022 | Biometrics launched for consumer cloud storage, may expand for Chrome password managementBiometrics continue to slowly penetrate the consumer computing market in the face of a barrage of warnings about fraud, identity… |
| Jul 6, 2022 | Native face biometrics still a maybe at Google. Maybe Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 7… Pixel 17?Google may still be working on face biometrics unlocking for the Pixel 6 Pro, according to 9to5Google. According to the… |
| Jul 1, 2022 | Engineer writes biometric code to ID anonymous faces in Holocaust photosGoogle engineer Daniel Patt claims to have created facial recognition software that can identify unidentified faces in photos from prewar… |
| Jun 14, 2022 | Some world leaders take the hint and start building bulwarks against deepfake dangerThe European Union, Reddit and Google are taking steps to do something about deepfakes. Exactly what they will accomplish is… |
| Jun 6, 2022 | Google’s down $100M, BIPA plaintiffs see a fraction, lawyers will swim in the moneyA biometric-privacy class action boasting a number of superlatives in Illinois is finally drawing to a close. A court administrator… |
| Jun 2, 2022 | Voice biometrics and speech recognition expand amid countermeasures, bad news for WalmartVoice biometrics, voice recognition and speech analysis are coming on leaps and bounds, heading to break through the $20 billion… |
| May 17, 2022 | Meme to mime: Google and others launching face biometrics as computer codeGoogle and Domino’s Pizza are both pushing a new accessibility feature – involving face biometrics — as something mainstream computer… |
| May 13, 2022 | Google debuts Wallet, new Pixel Watch and Phone at I/O eventAt Google’s I/O developer conference this week, the company released its Wallet for Android, with plans for biometrically secured digital… |
| May 12, 2022 | Expanded skin tone scale released by Google to help reduce bias in AI, computer visionProgress on work done by Google to reduce the level of AI bias in the capture of images of skins… |
Google Industry Insights
Google’s BIPA extraterritoriality dismissal provides key lessons
By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney Utilizing a successful extraterritoriality challenge, Google was recently able to…
| Biometrics will Challenge the Security and Privacy of Social Networking |
