May 11, 2020

Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies

… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois.

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April 07, 2020

Two schoolkids sue Google for collecting biometrics

The suit is about biometrics and children's privacy in Google's education apps, which are suddenly, wildly popular now due to COVID-19.

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February 07, 2020

Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints

It's my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we're just doing what Google Search does.

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January 31, 2020

Facebook to pay $550m to settle face-tagging suit

A class-action lawsuit against Facebook for the use of its tag suggestions feature looks like it's finally done churning through the courts.

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January 28, 2020

Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints

A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.

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December 16, 2019

Emotion-detection in AI should be regulated, AI Now says

It's built on junk science, yet it's being used to determine who gets hired, fired, insured, medicated and more, the research institute says.

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September 26, 2019

Vimeo sued for storing faceprints of people without their say-so

The suit was filed under BIPA, the Illinois law that requires written consent to grab people's faceprints - the same law Facebook's battling.

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August 12, 2019

Facebook facial recognition: class action suit gets court’s go ahead

The court said facial recognition could well harm privacy rights, given its “detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled” biometrics collection.

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July 05, 2017

Illinois poised to ban geolocation tracking without consent

Great news, right? But is it a waste of time, or a welcome step towards greater privacy?

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