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Happy Privacy Day: Emerging Issues in Privacy, Cybersecurity, and AI in the Workplace (JD Supra, Jan 29, 2025)
State biometric privacy laws, such as Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and similar laws in California, Colorado, and Texas, impose stringent requirements on biometric data collection, including obtaining employee consent and implementing robust data security measures. Employers must also assess the cybersecurity vulnerabilities of dash cam providers, given the volume of biometric, location, and other data they may collect.
 

Scan Your Eyeballs at the Checkout: Canadians Split on Biometric Payments, Poll Finds (CTV News, Jan 29, 2025)
According to a new survey from Research Co., which found 46 per cent of respondents interested in the prospect of having their physical features scanned to make purchases.
 

AXS Unveils New Biometric Authentication System (Australian Leisure Management, Jan 29, 2025)
With on-device biometric authentication, users can log in to their accounts and access their tickets using their fingerprint or facial recognition.
 

TSA Now Accepts Digital IDs From These 14 States (Forbes, Jan 29, 2025)
A TSA factsheet says facial recognition technology “will not be used for surveillance or any law enforcement purpose,” presenting digital readers as a more secure, faster alternative to ID verification than the current manual process. The agency website says that after a CAT-2 reader takes a photo of the traveler, “each passenger’s live photo and the personally identifiable information collected from their digital ID will be overwritten when the next passenger is scanned.”
 

Tech Turmoil: Kroger Fiercely Denies New Facial Recognition Policy After Worried Customers Threaten ‘Will Not Be Shopping There’ (The Sun, Jan 29, 2025)
Speculation began in August after Senator Elizabeth Warren and former Senator Robert Casey Jr. submitted a letter to Kroger's CEO Rodney McMullen that claimed the retailer was working with Microsoft to "place cameras at its digital displays, which will use facial recognition tools to determine the gender and age of a customer."

 

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