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King & Spalding

The U.S. Departments of Commerce and State Issue Proposed Rules Expanding Controls on Military and Security-Related Services, End...

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To curtail U.S. persons from supporting the efforts of adversarial regimes, such as China and Russia, in advancing their military and intelligence capabilities, the U.S. is proposing a significant expansion of export control...more

Spirit Legal

What’s Your Face Worth to You?

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Human face is the new oil? The market was always about the creation of value. About the production of goods and offering of services in exchange for money. Now, the word ‘good’ usually serves to describe things, whether...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

“Dirty by Nature” Data Sets: Facial Recognition Technology Raises Concerns

The sweeping use of facial recognition software across public and private sectors has raised alarm bells in communities of color, for good reason. The data that feed the software, the photographic technology in the software,...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

About Face: Algorithm Bias and Damage Control

As research continues to prove that AI is not an impartial arbiter of who’s who (or who’s what), various mechanisms are being devised to mitigate the collateral damage from facial recognition software....more

Hudson Cook, LLP

Seventh Circuit Finds Article III Standing in Biometric Information Collection Case, Deepening Circuit Split

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In a decision issued on May 6, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a plaintiff alleged a concrete injury sufficient to satisfy the Article III "injury-in-fact" requirement for standing when she...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

A Host of Biometric Privacy/Facial Recognition Bills Currently Circulating in State Legislatures

We’ve written extensively about the numerous lawsuits, dismissals and settlements surrounding the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The statute, generally speaking, prohibits an entity from collecting,...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Biometric Privacy Claims over Facial Recognition Feature in Videogame Dismissed for Lack of Concrete Harm

For the second time in the past six months, a district court has dismissed a lawsuit alleging procedural and technical violations of the Illinois biometric privacy statute for lack of Article III standing. In Vigil v....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Blippar App: Introducing Facial-Recognition Software for your Smartphone

Blippar, an augmented reality app, recently released its facial-recognition software which allows users to scan faces with their smartphones. The Blippar app makes it possible for people to scan faces (from print, TV or in...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Facebook calls Illinois Biometric Law Unconstitutional

In the ongoing saga of Facebook’s challenge of the Illinois Biometric Law, it declared last week that the Illinois law violates the United State Constitution. According to Facebook’s Answer in a suit filed against it in...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

The Future is Now

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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

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