Australia Hardware Chain Breached Privacy With Facial Recognition Tool, Regulator Says November 19, 2024 Wesfarmers-owned Bunnings, the country’s biggest home improvement chain, breached the privacy of thousands of customers by using facial recognition technology...
Viewpoint: Biometric Litigation Is Significant Emerging Risk for Insurers September 28, 2023 By James Blinn Executive Summary: Biometric litigation is a significant emerging risk that insurers must now take into consideration, says Jim Blinn, vice...
New Orleans Mayor OKs Facial Recognition Use for Cops August 1, 2022 New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell signed an ordinance Thursday to partly reverse the city’s ban on police use of facial...
New Orleans Approves Some Police Use of Facial Recognition July 25, 2022 The New Orleans City Council has reversed itself and approved police use of facial recognition software and cellphone surveillance towers...
Lawmakers Sought to Ban Facial Software Being Used to ID Capitol Attackers January 19, 2021 By Paresh Dave U.S. lawmakers are moving ahead with efforts to ban facial recognition software even as the technology helps identify supporters of...
Microsoft’s Home State’s Facial Recognition Privacy Bill Could Be Model for Others February 8, 2019 By Dina Bass Two months after calling for laws to regulate facial-recognition software, Microsoft Corp. is lobbying on behalf of a first-of-its-kind bill...
Facebook Must Face Claims Its Photo Tagging Violates Biometric Privacy May 6, 2016 By Kartikay Mehrotra Facebook Inc. users who say the social network’s facial scanning flouts their privacy rights won the first round of a...
Facebook’s Facial Recognition Software Draws Privacy Complaints, Lawsuit July 30, 2015 By Rachel Adams-Heard When you are identified in a picture on Facebook, biometric software remembers your face so it can be “tagged” in...