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The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report on the state of the facial recognition industry titled “FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY: Privacy and Accuracy Issues Related to Commercial Uses.” This latest report follows up on some key points regarding the privacy of personal data and the facial recognition industry from two previous […]
The city of Boston is considering passing a ban on the use of facial recognition technology, a move that would make then the third municipality to do so in the state of Massachusetts in the past 6 months following similar moves from the communities of Brookline and Cambridge late last year and earlier this year […]
Washington Governor Jay Inslee has officially signed the state’s new facial recognition bill into law. The state legislature passed the new regulations on March 12, and they will formally go into effect in 2021. In the meantime, one of the state’s most notable commercial residents is already celebrating the Governor’s decision. Microsoft argues that the […]
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 […]
The Washington State House of Representatives and the Senate have reached an agreement on new legislation regulating the use of facial recognition technology. Under the newly-passed Senate Bill 6280 — which the lawmakers are calling “one of the first and most comprehensive laws to regulate facial recognition technology in the nation” — facial recognition technologies […]
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 […]
A lawsuit that was filed by an employee against soft drink maker Keurig Dr. Pepper Inc. in Illinois that claims the company violated the state’s biometric privacy laws has been moved to a federal court at the request of the defendant. The plaintiff for the case — Gio Villanueva, an employee of Dr. Pepper in […]
Biometrics News – Facial Recognition A pair of class action lawsuits have recently been filed in Illinois against Rivers Casino in De Plaines and retail giant Wallgreens, with plaintiffs claiming state laws were broken when their facial biometric geometry was recorded without their consent. The lawsuits claim that plaintiffs’ rights were violated under the Illinois […]
Shook, Hardy, and Bacon has added two biometrics specialists to its corporate litigation team in Illinois. The law office has announced that attorneys Melissa Siebert (a new Partner) and Erin Bolan Hines (Of Counsel) will be handling complex biometrics lawsuits as members of the firm’s Business Litigation, Employment and Privacy and Data Security Practices department. […]
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