BIPA | Law360 | Lauraann Wood | April 8, 2020 Law360 (April 8, 2020, 6:35 PM EDT) -- An Illinois federal judge has denied a logistics company's bid to stay a finger scan privacy suit while waiting for a state appeals court to rule if the state workers'...
Clearview | CNN Business | Jordan Valinsky | February 26, 2020 Clearview AI hacked New York (CNN Business) Clearview AI, a startup that compiles billions of photos for facial recognition technology, said it lost its entire client list to hackers. The company said it has patched the unspecified flaw...
Biometric | VT Times | David Coldewey | January 30, 2020 COOK COUNTY, Ill. – An Illinois woman has sued Compass Group USA, parent company of Canteen, for collecting and storing thumbprints at is biometric vending machines without securing proper permission or indication of how long personal...
Facebook | TechCrunch | David Coldewey | January 29, 2020 Privacy Lawsuit: Facebook will pay over half a billion dollars to settle Facebook will pay over half a billion dollars to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged systematic violation of an Illinois consumer privacy law. The settlement...
Privacy | Cnet | Corinne Reichert | January 24, 2020 Lawsuit is taking aim at Clearview AI: app may pose a "chilling" privacy risk A lawsuit is taking aim at Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition app being used by US law enforcement to identify suspects and other people....
Privacy | Media Post | Wendy Davis | January 23, 2020 Clearview accused of violating Illinois' biometric privacy law Clearview AI, a start-up that reportedly sells "faceprint" databases to police departments, has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit. The company scrapped billions of photos from Twitter, Facebook and...
Clearview AI | The New York Times | Kashmir Hill | Jan. 18, 2020 Clearview AI devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app Mr. Ton-That — an Australian techie and onetime model — did something momentous: He invented a tool that could end your ability to walk down the...
Wyze| ArsTechnica | Kate Cox | 12/30/2019, 10:34 AM Loads of folks found brand-new Wyze surveillance cameras under their trees or in their stockings this Christmas. And on Boxing Day, the company itself unwrapped a whole new world of trouble for everyone who uses its products, confirming...
Wyze | InfoRisk Today | Jeremy Kirk | December 30, 2019 Technical Data Plus Emails Made It Possible to Link Cameras to People Seattle-based smart home device maker Wyze says an error by a developer exposed a database to the internet over a three-week period earlier this month,...
Dylan's Candybar Lawsuit | Loop North News | Scott Holland | December 9, 2019 The Michigan Avenue candy shop, owned by the daughter of fashion designer Ralph Lauren, is accused of violating privacy law concerning fingerprints collected when workers punched in at the beginning of their...