Amazon is expanding its innovative palm-scanning payment system, Amazon One, to all of its Whole Foods stores across the United States by the end of this year. The biometric technology […]

OpenAI has taken measures to prevent its AI tool, GPT-4, from being used broadly for facial recognition. In addition to performing text-based interactions, GPT-4 can describe images. One participant in […]

The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has a five-year statute of limitations. The decision is the result of a proposed class action lawsuit against […]

Scotland’s Biometrics Data Commissioner is asking the Criminal Justice Committee for more oversight over the country’s prisons. Commissioner Brian Plastow is specifically interested in the use of facial recognition technology […]

Roy Friedman is taking Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority to task for mishandling biometric data that was captured at the Israeli border. Friedman is the head of the Identity and […]

Citizens Insurance Co of America has been roped into a pair of class action lawsuits that originate with Clearview AI. One of the lawsuits alleges that Clearview’s data collection practices […]

The South Wales Police department is preparing to resume its use of live facial recognition technology. The department first started trialing face-based surveillance tech in 2017, but pulled back in […]

Facial recognition is one of the most contentious biometric technologies on the market today. It also happens to be one of the most confusing, insofar as the term ‘facial recognition’ […]

Facebook’s parent company is facing new legal woes in Texas. The state Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Meta that alleges that the company’s use of facial recognition technology […]

Another international privacy regulator is cracking down on Clearview AI. The company’s latest legal woes originate in France, where the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL) has ruled that Clearview’s […]