Biometric Information, Privacy Laws, Facebook

The Top 10 Privacy Law Issues From Last Month

Fox Rothschild LLP on 8/5/2024

These are the top 10 things you need to know from from the world of privacy last month, as compiled by me. •Texas means business when it comes to biometrics. The Texas Attorney General recently secured a $1.4 billion...more

An Overview of Why Class Action Privacy Lawsuits May Have Just Gotten Bigger – Yet Again.

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 3/2/2023

The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), enacted in 2008, was one of the first state laws to address commercial collection of biometric data. Biometric data includes an iris scan, a fingerprint, a voiceprint,...more

Recent Updates In Personal Data Regulation In Russia

International Lawyers Network on 7/14/2020

THE SUPREME COURT CONFIRMED THAT RUSSIAN USERS MAY FILE A LAWSUIT AGAINST AN AMERICAN SOCIAL NETWORK TO A RUSSIAN COURT - The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation reviewed a case initiated by a number of Internet users...more

New Privacy Protections Introduced in Illinois

Fisher Phillips on 10/31/2019

Illinois has introduced new workplace privacy legislation governing the use of artificial intelligence during the job interview process. The state legislature unanimously passed the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act...more

The Future is Now

Robins Kaplan LLP on 11/18/2016

More than a decade ago Steve Spielberg’s Minority Report contemplated a future in which facial recognition would be ubiquitously used for targeted advertising. Now, a California court will decide whether to dismiss a...more

Facial Recognition and Privacy

McGuireWoods LLP on 8/3/2015

Based upon the way modern computers are designed, there are certain tasks they are much better at performing than humans. It wouldn’t be pedantic to point the fact that’s the purpose of a computer in the first place: to do...more