Articles tagged biometric data

Vietnam’s new biometric ID cards raise fears of privacy violations, data breaches

Critics of the amended law voiced their fears over risks of privacy and potential data violations after authorities announced their plan to gather and store citizens' sensitive personal data through biometrics.

News

Angeline Tan

• May 1, 2024May 2, 2024

Target illegally collects customers’ biometric data, class action lawsuit alleges

A class action lawsuit filed in Illinois claims retail giant Target collects and stores customers’ biometric data without obtaining proper consent, in violation of state law.

News

John-Michael Dumais, The Defender

• Apr 24, 2024Apr 24, 2024

WEF report suggests digital ‘metaverse identity’ will become central to daily life

Your digital identity will be your passport in the metaverse, where it will be used to surveil, predict, and mimic your behavior while determining your level of access to information and spaces.

Opinion

Tim Hinchliffe

• Mar 27, 2024Apr 22, 2024

Visa moves toward biometric ID payment system to replace PINs, passwords

Biometrics is at once safer than that of PINs and passwords, but also much riskier, given that unauthorized access provides those behind a hack to a large amount of personal information.

News

Didi Rankovic

• Feb 28, 2024Feb 29, 2024

X/Twitter will collect biometric and employment data from certain users

Commentators warn that the Musk-owned platform’s collection of biometric data will endanger online privacy as a whole.

News

Emily Mangiaracina

• Sep 1, 2023Sep 4, 2023

Cops to change facial recognition policy after pregnant mom’s apparent wrongful arrest

Porcha Woodruff said her children 'stood there crying as I was brought away,' and that she worried the stress of the arrest and her subsequent hours in a Detroit jail could have been harmful or even fatal for her unborn baby.

News

Ashley Sadler

• Aug 10, 2023Aug 11, 2023

Tyranny looms as digital IDs and currencies roll out around the world

There are many small things that we can do in our own lives to fight back.

Blogs

Andreas Wailzer

• Nov 5, 2022Nov 9, 2022

Trudeau gov’t pushes to make ‘digital identity’ and facial recognition a requirement for air travel

Four unidentified air carriers are apparently on board with 'biometric travel documents.'

News

Anthony Murdoch

• May 26, 2022May 27, 2022

Major US airport to implement biometric facial recognition technology at all boarding gates by 2023

Though executives say the move will help expedite long lines, critics worry the normalization of biometric technology could strip away Americans’ personal privacy.

News

Ashley Sadler

• May 20, 2022May 21, 2022

Texas AG sues Facebook for collecting user facial recognition data

'Facebook repeatedly captured Texans’ biometric identifiers without consent not hundreds, not thousands, not millions of times – but billions of times,' the lawsuit alleges.

News

Joseph Summers

• Feb 15, 2022

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Articles tagged biometric data

Vietnam’s new biometric ID cards raise fears of privacy violations, data breaches

Target illegally collects customers’ biometric data, class action lawsuit alleges

WEF report suggests digital ‘metaverse identity’ will become central to daily life

Visa moves toward biometric ID payment system to replace PINs, passwords

X/Twitter will collect biometric and employment data from certain users

Cops to change facial recognition policy after pregnant mom’s apparent wrongful arrest

Tyranny looms as digital IDs and currencies roll out around the world

Trudeau gov’t pushes to make ‘digital identity’ and facial recognition a requirement for air travel

Major US airport to implement biometric facial recognition technology at all boarding gates by 2023

Texas AG sues Facebook for collecting user facial recognition data