US grapples with deepfakes as barriers to successful exploits
Deepfakes are accessible enough to have graduated from major heists and state-level misinformation to the more mundane world of fake…
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A biometric data privacy win in court is followed by a related FTC investigation and lawsuit
Executives at facial recognition firm Clarifai may have sighed with relief in March 2021 when a judge agreed that they…
US senators want FTC probe into ID.me
A group of Democratic senators led by Senator Ron Wyden have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate ID.me for allegedly…
Practical guidance for minimizing FTC liability exposure when using facial biometrics
By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney Still today, no regulation governing the use of facial recognition…
More voices on facial recognition heading for the FTC
It looks like the Federal Trade Commission will be fully staffed relatively soon, despite threats by some Senate Republicans to…
Updates for financial biometric operations announced in U.S. and Bangladesh
Financial regulators in the United States and in South Asia this week committed to greater protection for the biometric identifiers…
Surveillance skeptic nominated to U.S. Federal Trade Commission
The White House wants to draw a harder line on what is appropriate use of biometric surveillance. For his nomination…
FTC to publish compliance report on biometric privacy settlement with Paravision
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has said it will publish a report on Paravision’s compliance with the conditions of its…
FTC declares facial recognition surveillance tech dangerous, warns against federal privacy pre-emption
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has come out swinging against facial recognition, issuing a proposed settlement with Paravision which Law Street reports…
FTC approves facial recognition to verify parental consent under COPPA
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has allowed a new verification method that uses facial recognition technology and photographs of parents…
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