Probe NYPD Misuse of Facial Recognition, Legal Aid Urges Inspector General
(The City, Aug 26, 2025)
In a letter sent Monday, lawyers with Legal Aid cited reporting by THE CITY on an incident in which the NYPD circumvented its own restrictions on facial recognition searches in order to track down a pro-Palestinian protester at Columbia University.
Editorial: Biometric Privacy Laws Must Evolve With the Times
(The Chicago Tribune, Aug 26, 2025)
It’s important to keep laws up to date with fast-moving technology. It’s also important that our state remains competitive as a tech hub. The state has done this before. Just last year, lawmakers approved, and Gov. JB Pritzker signed, changes to BIPA that limited potential damages and broadened the definition of “written release” to cover electronic signatures.
Auckland Airport Says Check-In Overhaul Means No More ‘Long Queues,’ More Biometric Technology
(The New Zealand Herald, Aug 26, 2025)
Self-service kiosks and automated bag drops will replace about 60 traditional check-in desks between now and the opening of the domestic jet terminal at the end of this decade.
NAB Strengthens Digital Banking Services With Facial Biometrics
(Identity Week, Aug 26, 2025)
Whilst acknowledging more protections are needed, facial recognition has provided a “simple and fast way” to bolster their bank-wide scam strategy and spurn criminals. Criminals operate beyond the periphery of laws and regulations as the rate of technology development advances their legitimate objectives.
Union Pacific Stuck With Truckers’ Biometric Privacy Lawsuit
(Bloomberg Law, Aug 26, 2025)
Union Pacific Railroad Co. must face a lawsuit alleging it collected the fingerprints of truckers making deliveries to its intermodal facilities without their consent in violation of an Illinois privacy law. The railroad’s status as a contractor with the Chicago-area commuter-train system and its participation in a public-private partnership to improve Chicago-area railroads didn’t exempt it from the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, Judge Jorge L. Alonso of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said Monday. Alonso denied Union Pacific’s motion for summary judgment, and reserved a related issue—whether the railroad was exempt as a result...
