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…
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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…
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…
NZ police struggle to delete unlawfully collected images
Three years after New Zealand law enforcement agencies were ordered to delete tens of thousands of photos of children and…
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…
USSOCOM’s brave new exploitation of the bad guys’ biometrics
The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) may soon enter into a long-term contractual agreement with an unidentified academic institution near…
As Brazil debates AI bill, calls for facial recognition bans emerge
A group of rights organizations is calling on the Brazilian government to pass the country’s proposed AI regulation and introduce…
BIPA suit against X Corp. killed as judge hashes out ‘biometric identifiers’
The question of whether photos collected by social media sites constitute biometric data has another answer, this one from an…
Vermont governor rejects privacy law that would be among strongest in US
The governor of Vermont says the state’s proposed data protection law is too risky, and has returned H.121, “An act…
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