Colorado Rolls Out Updated Privacy Rules Ahead of 2025 CPA Amendments
(The National Law Review, Jan 07, 2025)
The Colorado AG’s office adopted draft amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act rules last month. The adopted draft reflected input from the public to AG’s September 2024 version and addresses three key issues. First, on opinion letters and interpretive guidance from the AG. Second, changes resulting from the passage of a bill related to biometric (HB 24-1130) data. And third, a bill related to children’s (SB 24-041) privacy. (Both of which amend Colorado’s privacy law.)
Privacy Commissioner Unveils Biometrics Code Draft for Public Consultation
(NZ Lawyer, Jan 07, 2025)
Currently, the Privacy Act 2020 governs the use of personal information, including biometrics, but Webster emphasised that biometrics require additional protections due to their unique risks. Biometric processing involves using technologies, such as facial recognition, to collect and analyse biometric data for identification or profiling purposes.
Aadhaar-Based Payments Using Face Scan Yet to Fall into Place
(The Economic Times, Jan 08, 2025)
"The reason payments through face authentication has failed to take off is because only 23 banks are currently offering this service," said a banking industry official. "Public sector banks have asked for a web-based solution, which the UIDAI is still developing."
What’s Next for Our Privacy?
(MIT Technology Review, Jan 07, 2025)
There have been some privacy wins in the form of limits on what data brokers—third-party companies that buy and sell consumers’ personal information for targeted advertisements, messaging, and other purposes—can do with geolocation data. This is not even to mention the increased collection of our biometric data, especially for facial recognition, and the normalization of its use in all kinds of ways. In this light, it’s no stretch to say our personal data has arguably never been more vulnerable, and the imperative for privacy has never felt more urgent.
Biometrics: The Future of ID Resolution
(Forbes, Jan 07, 2025)
Behavioral biometrics is of particular interest to me as it represents a convergence of my passions and expertise—harnessing data to decode human habits and create more seamless, personalized experiences. Beginning with my academic foundation in anthropology, sociology and psychology from Princeton and continuing through my over 30-year career in technology innovation, I have become an expert in leveraging digital attributes like biometrics to create AI models that drive effective marketing for Fortune 1000 companies in a variety of industries such as automotive, insurance, pharmaceuticals and hospitals. As a member of the Board of Directors at the AI biotechnology company CytoSolve, I am witnessing how cutting-edge technologies like behavioral biometrics are actively shaping our world.
