ICE to Pay Up to $10 Million for Clearview Facial Recognition to Investigate Agent Assaults
(Forbes, Sep 08, 2025)
“At a moment when the government is charging protesters who throw food with felony assault, it's clear that this tech will just become another way to silence dissent,” said Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.
DHS Seeks Cutting-Edge Biometric Solutions for Border Screening
(Biometric Update, Sep 09, 2025)
DHS is calling on industry, academia, and national labs to propose solutions that are most viable for real-world deployment.
Briefing Note on the Ethical Issues Arising From the Public Sector Use of Biometric Voice Recognition Technology
(GOV.UK, Sep 09, 2025)
BFEG take the view that government regulation would be the most effective way of ensuring voice recognition technology is used ethically. In the absence of this, the group have provided a set of recommendations that organisations operating the technology should strongly consider adopting, to ensure effective, rigorous and ethical governance.
Khurda Road Division Implements Biometric Attendance for TTEs
(The Statesman, Sep 09, 2025)
The biometric feature was developed in coordination with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.
Amazon Doubts Tech’s Accuracy in Bid to Upend Biometric Lawsuit
(Bloomberg Law, Sep 09, 2025)
Amazon.com Inc. argued Tuesday that if litigation continues in a Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act class action over its virtual try-on technology, its right to individually query customers would overwhelm the value of the collective lawsuit. The online retailer seeks a reversal of class certification and, as part of that, a district court’s determination that a combination of billing and user IP addresses, geolocation data, and class member affidavits would make it easier to ascertain which customers used the try-on tech in Illinois. That data isn’t sufficiently reliable, Amazon attorney Stephanie Schuster told the US Court of Appeals for the ...
