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Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)

The Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) requires organizations to acquire consent prior to collecting a person’s biometric data for commercial purposes.

 

BIPA damage limitation applies retroactively to pending class actions: court

Illinois’ infamous biometric data privacy law has lost some of its sting. A ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals…

 

FTC order bars OkCupid from misleading users about biometric data sharing

Dallas, Texas-based dating app company Match Group Americas and its subsidiary Humor Rainbow, Inc., doing business as OkCupid, have agreed…

 

Amazon ordered to share ‘limited source code’ in biometric data privacy dispute

Amazon’s legal representation in a lawsuit filed under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act has taken the awkward position that its…

 

Grok’s image processing feature is a mass violation of biometric privacy laws

The world, or some part of it, has decided in the last month or so that generating sexualized images of…

 

Illinois business community fighting for further reform of biometrics regulation

The business community in Illinois, and in particular representatives of big tech, want further reform to the State’s Biometric Information…

 

Google settles biometric data privacy lawsuit over attempts to weed out bias

Google has reached a settlement agreement over its use of an open-source dataset allegedly containing images of people from Illinois…

 

Advance of retail biometrics runs up against corporate trust, transparency concerns

Retail biometrics are being adopted to secure payments, prevent theft and less often for use cases like employee time and…

 

Illinois’ biometric data privacy lawsuit merry-go-round keeps spinning

Cyrptocurrency platform Coinbase is facing allegations it failed to obtain written consent before capturing face biometrics from people applying for…

 

US biometric data privacy lawsuit against Clearview concludes after 5 years

The biometric data privacy lawsuit against Clearview AI has finally been officially settled. The lawsuit has been crawling along since…

 

Clearview facial recognition service, web-scraping preserved with court approval

A U.S. district court judge has granted final approval to the settlement of Clearview AI’s multi-district litigation over alleged biometric…

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