Illinois residents may proceed with a lawsuit alleging that Amazon and Microsoft violated a state biometric privacy law by amassing a database of fingerprints, a federal judge has ruled. ...

TikTok agreed to pay $92 million to settle claims that it violated a wide range of data-protection laws, including a federal video privacy law and an Illinois law regarding biometr ...

A federal judge has granted final approval to a class-action settlement requiring Facebook to pay $650 million for allegedly violating an Illinois biometric privacy law by compiling a database ...

A study of reactions to a video ad found that while sadness decreased sharing, other emotions like disgust slightly increased it. Emotion-provoking ads can create performance, though not in t ...

Facial-recognition company Everalbum will delete a trove of data gleaned from its photo storage app, Ever, in order to settle allegations it misled users about its use of controversial technolo ...

Google is pressing a federal judge to dismiss claims that the company violated an Illinois privacy law by acquiring a faceprint database from IBM, which itself reportedly obtained 100 milli ...

Google's YouTube has changed its terms of service to make clear that it doesn't want images on the platform to end up in facial-recognition databases. ...

Illinois consumers can proceed with a lawsuit alleging that Apple's Photos app violates an Illinois biometric privacy law ...

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 unanimous ...

"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 spee ...

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 ...

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 obtain ...

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 faceprint ...

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 t ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 sta ...

"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 Ho ...

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 railw ...

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. ...