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New York-based video hosting platform Vimeo lost an appeal in the Northern District of Illinois to have a class-action biometric privacy lawsuit go to arbitration. The lawsuit accuses Vimeo of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) prohibiting the capture, storage, and use of an individual’s biometric data without their written consent. The plaintiff […]
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) appears set to begin the ‘real-time’ deletion of its database of drunk drivers’ biometric data following a recent ruling from the European Court of Human Rights earlier this year. The court ruled in favor of Fergus Guaghran, who pleaded guilty to drunk driving following his arrest in 2008. […]
The Illinois branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of “survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, undocumented immigrants, and other vulnerable communities”, as these individuals are part […]
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed against photo-sharing service Shutterfly that alleged it had violated the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA) was dismissed by a federal judge last week, granting Shutterfly’s motion to compel the plaintiff to take her claims to arbitration. The case — which was filed in June of 2019 by Vernita Miracle-Pond and […]
Google’s attempts to have a class-action lawsuit filed against it dismissed have been refused by a federal judge, who ruled that the tech giant will have to face the claims that it violated federal privacy laws through its disclosure of users’ conversations to outside contractors. The suit originated last summer, following a report from Dutch […]
The plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in January against facial recognition company Clearview AI is asking a federal judge for a preliminary injunction requiring Clearview to destroy any biometric data it has already collected. The lawsuit — filed by plaintiff David Mutnick — claims that Clearview is in violation of the Illinois Biometric Protection Information […]
A provision to the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD) expanding its scope to include the protection of biometric data went into effect on March 21. The SHIELD Act, which was signed into law last July, mandates that businesses and organizations protect the private information of New York state’s residents by implementing […]
In a statement emailed to the CBC, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said it will continue to use Clearview AI, but only “in very limited and specific circumstances.” This comes amid growing concerns over the use of the controversial service by police forces across the globe. “Our review of the continued use of this […]
Google has been accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in a new lawsuit over the compiling of faceprints. This case comes just one week after social media giant Facebook agreed to pay $550 million in a settlement on a similar lawsuit. In a class-action complaint filed by plaintiff and Illinois resident […]
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 […]
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