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“It’s well-established that suspects can’t be forced to divulge the passcodes that would enable phone access, but there is growing debate about whether biometric data amounts to the same thing.” Another prominent court has weighed in on the question of Fifth Amendment rights with respect to biometric phone unlocking, with a federal court in Kentucky […]
Four congressional Democrats have introduced the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, a new law enforcement bill that while requiring federal, state and local law enforcement officers to wear body cameras would restrict their use of facial recognition technology at the same time. The bill was introduced by Reps. Karen Bass, D-Calif., chair of the […]
The Seventh Circuit court in the U.S. has weighed in on Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), and determined that the act of collecting and storing someone’s biometric information without proper consent is inherently harmful to that individual. The ruling defines the collection of biometric data as an “injury in fact,” which confers Article III […]
Clearview AI has indicated that it will be cancelling all contracts with private entities, and will instead make its platform available exclusively to government and law enforcement agencies moving forward. The news comes courtesy of documents filed in Illinois federal court, where the company is being sued for alleged violations of the state’s Biometric Information […]
A committee of the Virginia House of Delegates voted last week to send several privacy-related bills to a legislative commission for study, including the Virginia Privacy Act (VPA). The VPA is proposed as a less onerous version of the recently passed California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which came into effect in the state of California […]
Apple is once again at the centre of a privacy debate over requests for the tech giant to unlock the iPhones of the shooter in a recent tragedy at a naval air base in Pensacola, Florida. The situation Apple finds itself in is similar to the one in the aftermath of the 2015 San Berbardino […]
A new system for registering people living with HIV using biometric scanning is being declared ready for use after extensive testing in Kenya. In a joint study conducted by the Kenyan Ministry of Health, Kenyatta National Hospital, and the University of Washington 8,794 individuals throughout western Kenya were registered using a biometric iris-scanning technology. As […]
The New York Police Department has finally finished deleting what was an illegal database of fingerprints obtained from juvenile offenders more than two years after being ordered to do so by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). Calls to delete the database originated in 2014 after an arrest of a youth […]
A large coalition of organizations and trade associations has asked Congress to reconsider public bans on facial recognition technology. The group sent a letter to leading Democrat and Republican lawmakers, encouraging them to establish clear federal guidelines in collaboration with industry representatives. According to the Security Identity Association (SIA), the letter is part of a […]
One of the world’s biggest insurers is warning about the risks of biometric privacy legislation. The warning comes by way of Chubb’s latest Cyber InFocus report, with Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (or “BIPA”) being singled out as one of two salient digital issues in the insurance industry right now. (The other, ‘iEncrypt’, is a […]
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