… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois.
Tag Archives: BIPA
Two schoolkids sue Google for collecting biometrics
The suit is about biometrics and children’s privacy in Google’s education apps, which are suddenly, wildly popular now due to COVID-19.
Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers
Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?
Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints
It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does.
Facebook to pay $550m to settle face-tagging suit
A class-action lawsuit against Facebook for the use of its tag suggestions feature looks like it’s finally done churning through the courts.
Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints
A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.
Emotion-detection in AI should be regulated, AI Now says
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.
Vimeo sued for storing faceprints of people without their say-so
The suit was filed under BIPA, the Illinois law that requires written consent to grab people’s faceprints – the same law Facebook’s battling.
Facebook expands use of face recognition
Facebook’s replaced “tag suggestions” with “face recognition” – a setting Facebook says may help to save us from identity thieves.
Facebook facial recognition: class action suit gets court’s go ahead
The court said facial recognition could well harm privacy rights, given its “detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled” biometrics collection.