Judge rejects “98.75 percent discount” of $550M settlement in Facebook biometric privacy case
Facebook’s $550 million settlement agreement over alleged biometric data privacy violations is in doubt, after a federal judge refused to…
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InCadence wins $16M biometrics contract with U.S. Marines and gets acquired by Xator Corporation
InCadence has been acquired by Xator Corporation and tapped by the U.S. Marines to provide biometrics for battlefield identification in a…
Clearview AI says it’s like Facebook, Twitter in new defense
No one thought that Clearview AI, the biometrics firm that secretly scrapes images from the internet for its facial recognition…
WVU and partners develop wearable biometric platform for early COVID-19 symptom prediction
The West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) and WVU Medicine in partnership with Oura Health have developed a biometric digital platform that…
China considers biometric data protection law to curb facial recognition abuses and secure PII
Concerns about the impact of facial recognition and other biometrics on the privacy of Chinese citizens may soon find their…
U.S. senators want to know how secure data from Clear coronavirus app is
A pair of U.S. senators feel biometrics services firm Secure Identity LLC is not living up to its better known…
China’s face-scanning regulations are fuzzy and self-serving
The only certainty about biometric facial recognition in China is that everyone’s face is being recognized. A lot. As a…
Biometric privacy lawsuit decisions: Clearview AI loses, Shutterfly and Southwest win, TikTok in trouble
A biometric data privacy suit against Clearview AI will move forward, and in the District Court for Northern Illinois, as requested…
Sony AI-powered sensors for industry, retail automation hold secure biometrics promise
Sony claims to have introduced the first artificial intelligence image sensors that speed up the data collection process and deliver…
CRS asks, who is ‘watching the watchers’ in analysis of proposed privacy protection bills
In recent months, members of Congress have introduced four consumer privacy bills and circulated discussion drafts of two additional proposals,…
