Emily Bruemmer of Davis Wright Tremaine writes: Boarding a flight. Buying a coffee. Accessing a financial account. The number of actions or transactions that individuals can accomplish through the use of facial recognition, thumbprints, voiceprints, or other biometric information is varied and increasing. Google Pay recently announced that it will authenticate [Read More…]
From Senator Chris Coons: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced bipartisan legislation to require federal law enforcement to obtain a court order before using facial recognition technology to conduct targeted ongoing public surveillance. The use of facial recognition technology is a valuable [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic writes: What should be headline news across the country is relegated to a single local newspaper fighting back against illegal government surveillance. Over the past two years, Memphis, Tennessee Mayor Jim Strickland and the Memphis Police Department have claimed that a 1978 consent decree barring them from conducting [Read More…]
Long-time readers may remember a situation in 2010 when someone in California found a GPS tracker on their car and removed it — and a discussion ensued about the legality of doing that. Years later, here we are with a case in Indiana on that question. TheNewspaper.com reports: A man [Read More…]