Walmart sued over alleged voiceprint collection from customer calls
Walmart has been accused of secretly converting Illinois customers’ telephone calls into biometric voiceprints, using AI to recognize callers and…
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.
Apple eyes facial recognition for smart home hub
Apple is reportedly developing a Siri-powered smart home hub that uses facial recognition to identify household members and display personalized…
Biometrics lawyer Dan Saeedi talks BIPA on Biometric Update Podcast
Dan Saeedi is a BIPA buster. The renowned Chicago attorney, CIPP/US,a partner and team co-lead of the biometric privacy team…
Tech giants sued under BIPA over voiceprints used to train AI
Google is facing a new lawsuit under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), accusing the company of training voice AI…
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…
