NYC proposes regulations for sale of biometrics by businesses
New York City has joined the list of jurisdictions nationwide creating roadblocks to facial recognition and other biometrics. Lawmakers agreed…
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Evernym webinar charts path to digital ID privacy for verifiable health credentials
Evernym recently hosted a webinar on the role of self-sovereign identity (SSI) privacy in verifiable health credentials. The pandemic has…
Biometric training data privacy suit to go ahead, but Microsoft and Amazon win partial dismissal
A pair of biometric data privacy suits, filed against Microsoft and Amazon, will go ahead after a federal judge in…
Xiaomi biometric ‘anti-peeping’ patent published
Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software, the mobile software division of Xiaomi, had a patent published this week that seems to be…
Biometrics and user control, maybe a piece of paper; Gruener and Cavoukian on Good Health Passes
The Good Health Pass initiative is ID2020’s most ambitious project yet. In a sense, it could be considered a culmination…
Brain biometrics’ growing demand sparks privacy concerns and new products
The VR/AR market is set to grow dramatically as users are looking for enhanced gaming experiences and new ways to…
ImageNet database blurs images used for facial recognition training in privacy effort
The team behind ImageNet has announced that it has blurred the faces in its 1.5 million-image database, which has been…
US House to examine bill setting new standards for biometric, digital privacy rights
A Democratic lawmaker in the United States, Suzan DelBene, has reintroduced a private-members bill intended to boost consumer digital rights…
Police facial recognition use in Belarus, Greece, Myanmar raises rights, data privacy concerns
Facial recognition software developed by Belarusian software design company LLC Synesis and implemented by the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs,…
The Man’s still watching college kids, now with biometric surveillance — report
U.S. college and university campuses are as interested in biometric surveillance as any other public and private organization, according to…
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