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Google Biometrics News
Password managers make opposite calls on biometrics
A new biometric passwordless authentication feature has been launched by Bitwarden to increase the speed and convenience with which users…
| Dec 6, 2022 | Beta for Google mobile driver’s license app is outA beta test of Google’s wallet app supporting some mobile U.S. driver’s licenses is out. The beta was announced by… |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Consumers in three recent biometric data privacy cases seek class action statusThree proposed U.S. class actions involving alleged biometric privacy violations are churning between Chicago and New Orleans. The defendants are… |
| Nov 25, 2022 | Facebook celebrates an easy BIPA win; two other cases get jostledWhat a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive; moreso when we first file biometric information privacy… |
| Oct 31, 2022 | Indicio decentralized digital identity now available through Google partner programOpen-source digital ID vendor Indicio says it is now certified to sell its products along with Google’s products. Now part… |
| Oct 20, 2022 | Texas sues Google alleging biometric data collected without consentGoogle 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… |
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 |
