German Kids Passports All Go Biometric Next Year
By Jim Nash Germany is doing away with children’s paper passports in favor of biometric documents with embedded electronic chips beginning next year. The children’s…
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Biometrics Firms Caught in Data Privacy Complaints Turn to Arbitration
By Jim Nash Short of actually winning a biometrics privacy lawsuit in the U.S. states of Illinois and California there seems only one avenue for…
Detroit Police Change Facial Recognition Procedure as Falsely Accused Woman Sues
By Jim Nash Police leadership in the U.S. city of Detroit is reacting to a wrongful arrest lawsuit by defending facial recognition software and coming…
Battle Over Age Verification Heats Up In Increasingly Censorious US
By Jim Nash Depending on the point of view, online life in the United States is either marching toward safety for children or sliding into…
Bar for UK Crimes Prosecuted with Live Facial Recognition Could Get Much Lower
By Jim Nash Pledges by the UK government that its use of biometric data in law enforcement would be limited to, for example, the most…
Historic Penalty Decision in BIPA Case Shows the Need to Take Biometric Privacy Seriously
By Jim Nash Biometrics in one U.S. jurisdiction is now officially a live electrical wire dancing on the ground, ready to shock the unwary, and…
Millions in Biometric Data Privacy Lawsuit Settlements Continue to Pile Up
By Jim Nash It’s another busy day for biometric privacy plaintiffs in the U.S. state of Illinois. A regional grocery chain and Instagram both have…
G7 Ambivalent About Generative AI
By Jim Nash AI governance did not make the top 10 or 25 concerns mentioned in the G7’s communiqué that closed the group’s 2023 meeting….
Facial Recognition Shows Up in Public Housing, Small Cities
By Jim Nash The race to make biometric surveillance commonplace is only getting faster, with systems going up in public housing and municipalities far from…
Study Finds Factors Behind a Society’s Acceptance of Biometric Surveillance
By Jim Nash Wondering if your neighbors will support government use of facial recognition surveillance? A new study of four of the world’s largest economies…
TSA Fighting to Fund Biometric Screening Devices, Airport Digital ID Expansion
By Jim Nash The Biden administration is selling its fiscal 2024 Transportation Security Administration budget request to the opposition-held House of Representatives, which will largely…
Studies Show US Police Facial Recognition Use is Advancing Without Thinking Through Harms
By Jim Nash Two new studies on facial recognition and policing in the southern seaboard of the U.S. do little to increase the public’s trust…
US Military Group Wants Weaponized Deepfakes, Better Biometric Tools
By Jim Nash At least some in the U.S. military have heard enough about deepfakes and they want in. Investigative-news publisher The Intercept has got…
It’s Been an Ugly Six Months for Identity Theft and Data Breaches
By Jim Nash A look back at U.S. security debacles in 2022, combined with a “major incident” this year, is doing nothing to make Americans…