Germany positioned to dig heels in over EU’s AI Act, biometrics use
Germany is positioning itself more closely with the European Parliament rapporteurs’ aims for stricter protections in areas such as biometric…
data privacy
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Kids are guinea pigs in schools’ biometric data privacy experiments
No global generation of kids, not the Xers, not even the Boomers will be as influential around the world as…
Malta deep-sixes safe city facial recognition project after Huawei contract expires
Malta appears to have changed course on a plan to launch a CCTV network with facial recognition through a contract…
Whole Foods settles BIPA case, burger chain is hauled in
A pair of food companies are in the news over biometric privacy lawsuits – one paying to end its case…
Apple wins US biometric privacy case on appeal
In a biometrics-bound lawsuit decision more noteworthy for the name of its defendant than precedent, Apple has prevailed in a…
Protect kids or avoid censorship — ID verification debate warms in US
Moralizing aside, stated concerns in the United States about the innocence of childhood are going to be good business for…
Newfoundland digital ID to have 2023 launch, while Ontario lags behind
There’s news and no-news out of Canada’s provinces on implementing digital IDs, as Newfoundland pushes ahead and Ontario stalls, according…
Tamil Nadu engages private firm to collect biometrics from homeless without contract
The personal data and biometrics of thousands of desperately poor people in India’s Tamil Nadu state, some waiting 20 years…
FaceTec pulled into BIPA case; Yoti pushes for a federal judge
Biometrics developer FaceTec is the latest company to be hauled into court for allegedly violating the U.S. state of Illinois’…
US agencies 47 years behind with privacy law
Just one in 17 U.S. federal agencies have been able to comply with year-old requirements for getting consent to disclose…
