U.S. Government's New Biometric Screening Tactic Shines Light on Canada's Border Security Weakness
(The Travel, Nov 07, 2025)
While this raises privacy concerns, former Canada Border Services Agency officer, Kelly Sundberg believes Canada should actually be following the U.S. on this one. "There's a lot of countries that do this, and we should be doing this too," he told GlobalNews.
Newly Surfaced Recordings Reveal Alarming Way Elon Musk Used Employee Biometric Data: ‘A Job Requirement’
(TCD, Nov 07, 2025)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's xAI required employees to surrender biometric data, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. The report couldn't have appeared at a worse time for the embattled tech titan.
These Are the Major Loopholes on Emotion-Recognition in EU Artificial Intelligence Act
(Euobserver, Nov 07, 2025)
Despite their strong influence on human decision-making — particularly given the prevalence of automation bias — emotion recognition systems rarely make decisions on their own. That makes it possible to label such systems as “preparatory” and neatly avoid the obligations stipulated for high-risk AI systems under the AI Act.
‘This Isn’t About Mass Surveillance’: West Yorkshire Police Roll Out Use of Live Facial Recognition in Leeds
(Yorkshire Evening Post, Nov 07, 2025)
Faces that match the biometrics of someone on a watchlist will create an alert, while data relating to all other faces scanned by the system will be instantly deleted, West Yorkshire Police have reassured the public.
Alexa Users Win Class Status in Amazon Biometric Privacy Suit
(Bloomberg Lawerg, Nov 07, 2025)
Amazon.com Inc.‘s Alexa users suing the online retailer for collecting their voiceprints in violation of Illinois privacy law can proceed as a class, a federal court ruled. Judge Franklin U. Valderrama of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted in part the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification in a sealed opinion Thursday, according to a docket entry. The class is defined as Illinois residents for whom Amazon created a voiceprint beginning June 27, 2014, the entry said. Valderrama found that plaintiffs Christopher Block and Jason Stebbins were proper class representatives, but that Michael Gunderson wasn’t,...
