NIST continues to study immersive technology cyber, privacy issues
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) continues to conduct research it began earlier this year into the…
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Samsung gets one biometric data privacy case back into court, another dismissed
Samsung has defeated a ruling that would have compelled it to go through mass arbitration over allegations of biometric data…
Google settles over kids biometric data collection in schools
Google and the parents of an Illinois girl who sued (H.K. et al. v. Google LLC) the tech giant in…
Meta’s $1.4B settlement in Texas biometric data privacy lawsuit approved
Meta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle the lawsuit against it for using…
Nigeria election agency wants robust protection for biometric voter database
The Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) is seeking firmer collaboration with the country’s data protection commission to enhance…
Biometric data privacy lawsuit against Amazon, Starbucks mostly thrown out
A lawsuit against a pair of retail titans in New York City over alleged violations of biometric data protection rules…
Korean regulators plan formal framework for biometrics as use cases expand
The scope of biometric technologies is often boiled down to facial recognition and ID verification. But in Korea, as biometric…
Controversial US privacy bill rewritten again, but path still unclear
The already controversial American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 (APRA), which was originally introduced in April by U.S. Senate Commerce…
CISA, FLETC failed to protect law enforcement officers’ PII, other data
Two important arms of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to protect personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive…
Scope and contours of BIPA biometric ‘identifiers’ and ‘information’
By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney One of the most significant unsettled issues in Illinois Biometric…
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