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A preliminary vote by Pittsburgh City Council has paved the way for a new bill requiring law enforcement to seek Council approval before the purchase of facial recognition and predictive policing technology to be passed into law this week. Though the bill received support from the majority of the council, there are some who are […]
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced a new biometric security pilot project that will allow travelers to verify their identity using facial recognition software, thereby limiting the need to interact with others, which could help to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Travelers taking part in the program — which is initially limited to Ronald […]
A new audit from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published this week accuses Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of negligence in the providing of complete and accurate privacy notices, as well as failing to conduct audits that would ensure its facial recognition technology complies with privacy standards. The report was conducted at the request of […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is examining some of the issues that legislators and technology providers will need to consider as they work to implement digital identities. The organization is particularly concerned about privacy, and the possibility that digital IDs could be used to exacerbate the inequalities that already exist in modern society. In that […]
According to an investigative report from news site RNZ, police in New Zealand have invested $9 million in a biometric facial recognition solution provided by Japanese tech giant NEC that can identify individuals from live images extracted from CCTV camera feeds. According to parliamentary annual reviews, the Automated Biometric Information System (ABIS) has been in […]
The Security Industry Association has announced the release of its new policy principles meant to guide the development and deployment of facial recognition technology. This comes a few months after SIA voiced opposition to The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act, which was proposed in June of this year by United States Senators Edward […]
Pittsburgh city councillor Corey O’Connor has introduced legislation that, if passed, would ban the city’s Public Safety Department (PPSD) from using facial recognition software or Predictive Policing Technology. The PPSD oversees the city’s police department, which is already prohibited by the Pittsburgh Public Safety policy from acquiring and using facial recognition software, though news site […]
Embattled New York-based facial recognition startup Clearview AI has been asked to answer a number of questions regarding the collection and processing of personal biometric data in Hamburg, Germany, by Johannes Caspar, the city’s Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. The request came via a formal notice of inquiry filed by Caspar and […]
Social media giant Facebook has received preliminary approval from a California federal court to settle its Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) lawsuit for $650 million. Under BIPA, companies are forbidden from the collection and/or retention of an individual’s biometric data without their express written consent in the state of Illinois. It’s perhaps the most […]
Aerendir Mobile is interrogating the Privacy Paradox in a new report published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. In its most basic form, the Privacy Paradox holds that while people claim to value privacy in theory, they are not as precious about their privacy in practice. The Paradox is used to explain people’s willingness […]
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