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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published the transcript of Jennifer Lynch’s testimony to the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. Lynch is the Surveillance Litigation Director for the EFF, and was invited to address law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology at an April 22 hearing on the subject. In […]
“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 […]
The European Union is walking back from a temporary ban on the public use of facial recognition, according to a Reuters report. The possibility of a ban was previously raised in a draft of a European Commission white paper that was leaked to the press earlier this month. The final draft of that paper is […]
Democratic junior senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware) is cosponsoring a bipartisan piece of legislation that aims to regulate the use of facial recognition technology on the federal level. The other sponsor for the bill — known as The Facial Recognition Technology Warrant Act — is Utah Republican senator Mike Lee (R-UT). It would require federal law […]
The town of Brookline, Massachusetts, has officially moved forward with its facial recognition ban. The proposed ban was first tabled back in August with the blessing of Brookline State Senator Cynthia Creem. The new law bars the government’s use of facial recognition technology for surveillance and other purposes. It passed with an overwhelming 179 votes […]
Law enforcement’s unmonitored use of facial recognition technology has come under increasing scrutiny in the past few months. Bernie Sanders has echoed San Francisco and called for a complete ban on the police use of the technology, while Microsoft recently stated that it will refuse to sell its facial recognition tech for mass surveillance. With […]
Brookline, Massachusetts, is the latest municipality to consider a ban on facial recognition technology. The legislation was put forward by town meeting member Amy Hummel, and will be voted on during a special town meeting in November. The proposal has the support of Cynthia Creem, who represents the town in the Massachusetts State Senate and […]
“Only 26 percent of respondents agreed that the government should “strictly limit” the use of facial recognition, with about 45 percent disagreeing. “ With government authorities, tech company leaders, and voices from the media and activist groups having entered into a particularly heated phase of the debate over the public use of facial recognition over […]
Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has a potentially powerful new defender in the state’s newly-elected Attorney General, Kwame Raoul. The law, passed a decade ago, is aimed at protecting citizens’ privacy rights with respect to their biometric data, with a central component being a requirement that any companies collecting such data obtain clear consent. […]
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