Category Archives: BIPA

Senate Bill Would Expand Facial-Recognition Restrictions Nationwide

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The proposed law comes as police departments around the country for their use of facial recognition to identify allegedly violent Black Lives Matter protesters. Continue reading Senate Bill Would Expand Facial-Recognition Restrictions Nationwide→

Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies

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… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois. Continue reading Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies→

Two schoolkids sue Google for collecting biometrics

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The suit is about biometrics and children’s privacy in Google’s education apps, which are suddenly, wildly popular now due to COVID-19. Continue reading Two schoolkids sue Google for collecting biometrics→

Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers

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Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts? Continue reading Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers→

Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints

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It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does. Continue reading Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints→

Facebook to pay $550m to settle face-tagging suit

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A class-action lawsuit against Facebook for the use of its tag suggestions feature looks like it’s finally done churning through the courts. Continue reading Facebook to pay $550m to settle face-tagging suit→

Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints

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A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs. Continue reading Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints→

Emotion-detection in AI should be regulated, AI Now says

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It’s built on junk science, yet it’s being used to determine who gets hired, fired, insured, medicated and more, the research institute says. Continue reading Emotion-detection in AI should be regulated, AI Now says→

Vimeo sued for storing faceprints of people without their say-so

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The suit was filed under BIPA, the Illinois law that requires written consent to grab people’s faceprints – the same law Facebook’s battling. Continue reading Vimeo sued for storing faceprints of people without their say-so→