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 ...

Clearview AI, a start-up that sells "faceprint" databases to police departments, has been sued for allegedly violating an Illinois biometric privacy law. ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place a ruling that allows Illinois residents to proceed with a lawsuit accusing Facebook of violating a state biometric privacy law by compiling ...

Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has agreed with the EU that a temporary ban should be placed on the rollout of facial recognition in public before regulators have had a ...

"Facial recognition is fraught with risks," Sundar Pichai said Monday at a conference in Brussels. ...

A recent ruling that allows Illinois residents to bring a class-action against Facebook over its facial recognition technology could result in a wave of new lawsuits against technology companies, TechFreedom ...

While governments around the world have been investing significant resources in this technology, the U.S. and China are the leading adopters. ...

The influential Washington Legal Foundation is urging the Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit accusing Facebook of violating an Illinois privacy law. ...

Facebook is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in a class-action lawsuit brought by Illinois residents who say the platform's photo-tagging feature violates their biometric privacy rights. ...