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“The final decision comes roughly a month after the Boston City Council first revealed that it was considering facial recognition legislation.” Boston has become the latest city to ban the government use of face-based surveillance technology. The state capital follows in the footsteps of the neighboring city of Cambridge, which passed its own facial recognition […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is trying to make Americans more aware of the encroaching reach of facial recognition, inviting people to take a quiz to find out which state and federal agencies have access to their biometric data. The Who Has Your Face quiz is the result of a collaboration between EFF and the […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling attention to potential ethical violations related to the NIST’s Tattoo Recognition Challenge. The NIST issued the Tatt-C challenge in 2014 in an effort to spur the development of automatic tattoo recognition tools, giving interested parties access to an “open tattoo database” that contained more than 15,000 images. […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has signed a coalition letter asking the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board (PCLOB) to urge the government to put a moratorium on its use of facial recognition technology. Other signatories to the open letter include Color of Change, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, National Center for […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has weighed in on the recent Appellate Court ruling that cleared the way for a class action lawsuit against Facebook. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook gathered biometric information from users without achieving proper consent. The facts of the case haven’t changed since earlier reports, but the EFF’s breakdown does help explain […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is raising red flags over the Transportation Security Administration’s plans to expand its use of biometrics at US airports. The EFF’s warnings, outlined in a new blog post, come in response to the TSA Biometrics Roadmap for Aviation Security and the Passenger Experience published in October. The document laid out a […]
“Essentially, the court will decide whether the law should concern the unauthorized collection of biometric data alone, or whether alleged victims of malfeasance should have to prove that they have actually been somehow injured or wronged through the collection of such data.” The Illinois Supreme Court is poised to make a major ruling on how […]
The Department of Homeland Security is working on a secretive project aimed at dramatically expanding its biometric surveillance powers – and the Electronic Frontier Foundation is arguing it it must be stopped. The project is dubbed HART, for Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology, and it entails the collection of a wide range of data – not […]
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