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…
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.
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…
Missouri moves closer to a biometric privacy act
Three Missouri bills, House Bill 407, House Bill 500, and Senate Bill 554, have passed second readings as part of…
BIPA still ripe for civil actions on biometrics as legal status of amendment awaits clarity
Litigation of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) is in a strange legal limbo. Having been milked through a flurry…
Amazon can’t block BIPA voice biometrics case even though federal case failed
A federal judge in Delaware will not block a lawsuit filed in Illinois state court against Amazon Web Services (AWS),…
