Google Settles BIPA Lawsuit for $100 Million
Google is the latest tech giant to reach a settlement in a BIPA case. The company was facing a class action lawsuit that originated with the Face Grouping feature in […]
Google is the latest tech giant to reach a settlement in a BIPA case. The company was facing a class action lawsuit that originated with the Face Grouping feature in […]
$650 million was not enough to resolve all of Meta’s legal problems in Illinois. That record-breaking 2020 settlement stemmed from a lawsuit that alleged that the tech giant (then known […]
Utah Governor Spencer Cox has officially signed a new data protection act into law. The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) echoes similar legislation in California, Colorado, and Virginia, and will […]
A California State Senator is pushing a stronger biometric privacy law. The proposed California Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) would supplant the existing California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and create a […]
The Illinois First District Appellate Court has issued a ruling that sets clearer guidelines for those filing a civil suit under the Biometric Information Privacy Act. The ruling comes from […]
Federal and provincial privacy commissioners have determined that Cadillac Fairview collected the biometric information of 5 million Canadian shoppers without proper consent. Cadillac Fairview is a commercial real estate company […]
Some Chinese citizens are starting to push back against the widespread use of facial recognition, according to a South China Morning Post report. In that regard, they are worried that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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