A Montana neurotechnology privacy law enacted this year “signals a shift toward integrating neural data protections within existing biological data laws,” Morrison Foerster lawyers Linda Clark, Melissa Crespo and Katherine Wang blogged Friday.
Biometric Privacy
Biometric privacy laws regulate how companies handle sensitive personal identifiers like facial scans, fingerprints and voiceprints. In the U.S., Illinois’ BIPA has led to landmark litigation and multimillion-dollar settlements, setting a precedent for consent, data retention and security standards. Other states and countries are following suit with their own biometric requirements. This page covers key lawsuits, regulatory action and compliance best practices in the biometrics space.
The U.K. Home Office is rolling out 10 Live Facial Recognition (LFR) vans across the country to help catch high-harm criminals, it announced Wednesday. The move brought howls from a civil liberties group and a response from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
Legislation significantly revamping Israel's data protection law took effect Thursday, but the country's privacy watchdog said it will delay enforcement of one of its provisions until October.
Understanding definitions for “data broker” and sensitive personal data will help companies determine if they’re subject to FTC compliance under its new data broker law, Wiley attorneys said Wednesday.
Colorado's proposed draft amendment on kids' privacy in a rulemaking for implementing changes to the Colorado Privacy Act reflect the ongoing trend of states expanding privacy protections for their constituents beyond federal law, said Morgan Lewis lawyers in a blog post Tuesday.
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner on Monday issued guidance for private and public sector entities handling biometric data.
States show growing interest in privacy laws covering neural and neurotechnology data, Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) said Tuesday. Four states have enacted laws so far: Montana, California, Connecticut, and Colorado.
The New Zealand Office of the Privacy Commissioner Wednesday issued a biometric processing privacy code that attempts to balance responsible use of biometrics but also restricts intrusive forms of biometric technologies, such as those used to predict people's emotions to infer information like ethnicity or sex.
The U.S. Supreme Court's June decision that upheld a Texas law requiring age verification for access to porn sites (see 2506270041) could have wide implications for future legislation at the federal and state levels, said privacy lawyers.
Home Depot's AI-powered system that manages inventory and mitigates theft at self-checkout stations violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), said a class-action lawsuit filed Friday. Called Computer Vision, the system uses cameras and machine learning to perform facial recognition and collect customer facial geometry, lead plaintiff Benjamin Jankowski alleged in case 25-09144.