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The European Union is once again considering a ban on facial recognition. The possibility of a temporary ban surfaced in an early draft of a European Commission white paper in January, but those plans were eventually abandoned in the final draft of the paper. Now, the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee is calling for a […]
Google is planning to contest a class action lawsuit that alleges that the company violated the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in Illinois. The lawsuit was filed in February, and specifically concerns a facial recognition database that was created after extracting facial templates from photos on the company’s platform. BIPA prevents companies from obtaining and […]
Edward Santow is asking Australian lawmakers to pass more stringent facial recognition regulations. Santow is the country’s Human Rights Commissioner, and argued that law enforcement agencies should not be allowed to use facial recognition until there are meaningful legislative guidelines to prevent the abuse of the technology. The statements are at least partially a response […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has allied with several other civil rights and labor advocates to oppose California’s proposed A.B. 2261 legislation, which is currently in front of the state’s Assembly Appropriations Committee. The legislation is ostensibly designed to regulate the use of face-based surveillance so it can be used to slow the spread of […]
Washington Governor Jay Inslee has officially signed the state’s new facial recognition bill into law. The state legislature passed the new regulations on March 12, and they will formally go into effect in 2021. In the meantime, one of the state’s most notable commercial residents is already celebrating the Governor’s decision. Microsoft argues that the […]
“Legislators haven’t yet drawn up the standards to be upheld by the new Biometrics Commissioner, but it’s clear that the official will be primarily concerned with the collection and handling of biometric data.” Ministers of the Scottish Parliament (referred to in the country as “MSPs”) have unanimously approved a bill to create a Biometrics Commissioner […]
Legislators in Maryland are considering a proposed bill that would require Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain a warrant before using facial recognition to scan the Maryland Image Repository System, or MIRS. The legislation, Senate Bill 649, was prompted by revelations that ICE had conducted numerous searches of the state’s MIRS using facial recognition technology […]
In today’s tech landscape, the issue of privacy is increasingly in the foreground. Consumers have been grappling with this issue for years as the rise of the internet and the smartphone have brought huge amounts of user data and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) into the hands of marketers, government officials, and malefactors. But in recent […]
“BIPA has netted a growing number of these kinds of lawsuits in recent years, based on the simple legal premise that informed consent must be obtained from an individual before their biometric data is collected.” Surprising no one, Clearview AI – the controversial firm that has been quietly selling facial recognition technology to police – […]
With the tech industry facing the possibility of a multi-year moratorium on biometric facial recognition in the European Union, the executives of two of the world’s biggest companies have come down on different sides of the debate. The CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, suggested that he was in favor of the moratorium […]
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