Amazon and Microsoft are asking federal judges in Washington to dismiss lawsuits accusing the companies of violating an Illinois biometric privacy law by acquiring a database of faceprints. ...

A new court ruling allows Vermont's attorney general to proceed with claims that Clearview engaged in an "unfair" practice by allegedly using facial-recognition technology on photos of Vermont residents. ...

Come January, private companies in Portland, Oregon will no longer be allowed to use facial-recognition technology in stores, parks, and other places of public accommodation, under an ordinance passed unanimously ...

"The $650 million that will be awarded to the Illinois class is an impressive result both as an absolute number and relative to other class action settlements in privacy cases," ...

Facial recognition company Clearview AI is telling a federal judge that an injunction requiring the business to stop collecting and selling biometric data about Illinois residents would violate free speech ...

Companies would no longer be able to collect faceprints, retinal scans or other biometric data, unless the companies had both a valid business purpose and individuals' written consent, under a ...

The judge overseeing a privacy lawsuit against Facebook over its alleged use of facial recognition technology signaled Thursday he's inclined to approve a settlement. ...

Google, Amazon, Microsoft and FaceFirst were sued this week for allegedly violating an Illinois biometric privacy law by acquiring a database of faceprints. The complaints allege that tech companies obtained ...

Four federal lawmakers have unveiled a bill that would prohibit federal law enforcement agencies and other government entities from using technology that identifies people based on biometrics -- including faceprints, ...

Vimeo is appealing a trial judge's refusal to compel arbitration of claims it violated an Illinois law restricting the use of facial-recognition technology. ...

The company's arbitration agreement excludes claims relating to invasion of privacy, a federal judge found. ...

Lawyers for Illinois residents are asking a federal judge to grant preliminary approval to Facebook's $550 million settlement of a biometric privacy lawsuit. ...

Controversial company Clearview AI says it no longer uses facial-recognition technology on photos that appear to be associated with Illinois, and is prohibiting clients from searching photos associated with the ...

Two minors in Illinois have sued social media platform TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, for allegedly violating that state's privacy law by collecting users' faceprints. ...

"Technology has an important role to play in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic, but this health crisis cannot justify using unreliable surveillance tools that could undermine our privacy rights," Senator Ed ...

LinkedIn should be allowed to block outside companies like hiQ analytics from scraping users' data, the advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center argues in a new filing with the U.S. ...

An Illinois resident who sued Clearview AI in January is now asking a federal judge to issue a pre-trial order requiring the facial recognition company to destroy data about state ...

"The state urges that the people of Vermont immediately be set free from Clearview's dystopian surveillance database," Attorney Gen. Thomas Donovan writes in a new lawsuit against the company. ...

"I am concerned that Clearview might be collecting and processing images of children in violation of federal law," Sen. Ed Markey says in a new letter to Clearview CEO Hoan ...

Baidu developers have leveraged its facial recognition and other AI technology to create a way to remotely screen human body temperature. The fever-screening system, which is being used for railway ...

Facial recognition company Clearview AI recently notified its clients that the company's entire customer list had been stolen. ...

Two Senate Democrats proposed a bill that would temporarily block the federal government from using facial recognition technology. ...

One week after Facebook agreed to pay $550 million for allegedly violating an Illinois biometric privacy law, Google was hit with a new lawsuit accusing it of running afoul of ...

Clearview AI was hit with another federal privacy lawsuit on Wednesday, and is facing cease-and-desist demands from Google, Facebook and Twitter. ...

Google and its video service YouTube have joined Twitter in demanding that facial recognition startup Clearview AI stop scraping photos from their services. ...

Clearview violates a state law that gives people the right to control the commercial use of their names and images, a Virginia resident alleges in a complaint filed Monday. ...

By the thousands, folks are uploading their most provocative pictures to dating apps -- but somehow don't expect them to turn up elsewhere on the internet. ...

One week after the Supreme Court rejected Facebook's request to intervene in a class-action over facial recognition technology, the company announced it will pay an eye-popping $550 million to resolve ...

New York could ban the use of facial recognition technology by police under a proposed bill unveiled Monday by state Senator Brad Hoylman. ...

"Widespread use of your technology could facilitate dangerous behavior and could effectively destroy individuals' ability to go about their daily lives anonymously," Senator Ed Markey writes to Clearview AI CEO ...