Italian privacy authority fines Clearview AI €20M, orders biometrics deletion
The Italian privacy guarantor (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, or GPDP) has fined Clearview AI €20,000,000 (US$22 million)…
Europe
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Statewatch warns of worsening ethnic profiling risk in EU as identity systems expand
Monitoring organization Statewatch warns that new biometric identity controls used by police and immigration authorities in the European Union could…
German court escalates ID card fingerprints requirement to European Court of Justice
A local court in Germany has referred a case involving legal action against the obligation to store fingerprint biometrics on…
Tender launched for European digital identity wallet pilots
The European Commission announced the impending launch of at least four large-scale pilots to test the deployment of the European…
Driving license biometrics could form pan European ‘perpetual police line-up’: Statewatch
Any holder of an EU driving license will have their details and biometric information and photograph added to a pan-EU…
Will AI regs take a decade to write in EU? History says maybe so
If the speed at which Europe’s General Data Protections Regulation evolved from interesting idea to iconic privacy regime is an…
Identity Week Europe
Identity Week Europe Excel, London, UK June 28-29, 2022 Identity Week Europe is a conference and exhibition bringing together the…
Biometric and behavioral mass surveillance – will the EU ‘choose totalitarianism’?
A study into the use of biometric and behavioral mass surveillance, particularly in public spaces, examines whether, generally in the…
EU gambling firms are supporting a single, standard digital ID for Europe
A European Union gambling industry association is backing a proposed continental digital ID even though it has some concerns. In…
Three visions for biometrics regulation, all look iffy
A new assessment of the White House’s view of AI governance, particularly compared to that of the European Union, is…
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